[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

[Ian Collins]

Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>
 > Having been a witness to the conflicts over adding virtual memory to
 > Minix I find it ironic that the accepted practice now is to include
 > virtual memory in the OS, but not use it. For a long time everyone
 > used BSD because it had virtual memory and Sys V did not.

Eh? every contemporary desktop/server OS has and uses virtual memory. 
The need for backing store for swapping is much less these days, but it 
is still used and supported.

-- 
Ian.