In message: <20030216162435.H24051@real-time.com>
            Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com> writes:
: even with a fairly active swap partition, the wear leveling on CF disks
: ought to keep wear from being a real problem for most purposes.
: if netbsd has a decent VM subsystem (and I'm assuming it does), it shouldn't
: swap much anyway.

Swapping is more a function of there not being enough available
memory.  When one thrashes, it is almost impossible to keep from
writing dirty pages to swap...

Wear leveling will help a little, but it is still a good idea to not
have a swap partition unless you consider the CF parts disposable.

Warner