Tim Darby was looking to take advantage of swapcache, and got some advice from Matthew Dillon.  This led to a larger writeup that went into the mechanics and advantages of both swapcache and SSDs.  The swapcache(8) page has been expanded with these notes, and I’m sure I need to buy a SSD for my next upgrade.

SSD devices have tumbled into the sub-$100 range for smaller devices; they are perfect for swapcache if you’ve got the spare SATA connector…