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> My iPhone has a 32GB SSD hard drive

Embedded engineer here: Solid State Drives do lots of things GREAT. However "being a drive which swap is used on" is not one of them. That's because swap memory is written very often compared to any other portion of the drive. This quickly wears out the drive in that location (and all flash has a limited number of writes, and SSD is a flash technology).

There are specific drivers for doing swap on flash devices. But it isn't easy to do well without compromising usable life of the device.

IF you're interested in doing virtual memory in an app: http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2009/05/14/tip-iphone-virtual... is a way to do it, there is a hacked iphone app that also enables it too (don't have a URL offhand).

I dis-recommend doing so.




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