This question topically touched on this, but running on 64-bit Linux, I have a set of data caching JVMs as well as wanting a large web cache. Each cache today is configured to in gross fit in system memory (24GB) and persist to disk in LRU.
I'm curious however the performance if we **over-**allocated the cache processes and set up a SSD for a high-priority Linux swap. I'm wondering if the Linux kernel may be a little smarter/faster than our simplistic LRU process?
I'm concerned with over-allocating JVM heap and having heap pages swap by the kernel as to GC it would have to traverse said pages regularly.