I've often wondered if there are any situations where it would be
preferable to use a tmpfs filesystem on a lot of swap, i.e. exceeding
the amount of physical memory.

If so, I imagine that one would need to tune the vm system so this is
done sensibly.  First, though, there'd have to be a rationale ...

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