Even with a lot of system RAM, this is kinda risky. I think a better approach would be to create a logical volume group--primary volume being the RAM drive, secondary an actual disk partition--and mount it as swap. That way you get the best of both worlds: ultra-fast swap space that spills over to disk if necessary.
I don't mean to sound smug, but I recommend they try Solaris, which seems to have excellent performance when dealing with large amounts of RAM (greater than 8GB) and also has excellent multithread performance.
So... why not just turn swap off completely? I have done it a few times accidentally and once intentionally (when I was encrypting my HD). That would get the exact same result that they are getting.
