Oooopps..... Yeah! LOL
"Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net> wrote: If you had more ram, you wouldn't be swapping in the first place!
Kind of like expanding your garage to hold your tool shed? (That's the
closest I can come to an analogy, admittedly not a good one)
keith smith wrote:
> Isn't flash more expensive than RAM? So why not just add 512M RAM and
> run your swap in ram?
>
> Keith
>
> */"Jon M. Hanson" /* wrote:
>
> Michael Havens wrote:
> > I had a stroke of genius! (you are going to be proud of me for
> thinking of
> > this). This idea has been mulling around in my head for a while
> now. Wouldn't
> > it be lightning quick to put a swap file on a pendrive? No
disk
> activity
> > would be needed at all! It would all have to do with the bus's speed.
> >
> > Okay, I looked into doing this a while ago and was wondering if
> things had
> > changed.
> > -1- touch
> > -2- mkswap
> > -3- swapon (max file size in bytes>
> > -4- add ' swap swap noauto 0 0' to /etc/fstab
> >
> > what are the drawbacks to doing this? how could I automate this?
> >
> >
> > man! why do most computers even have hard drives! Unless you are
> running a
> > business.....
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> The problem is that flash drives are fast at reading but an order of
> magnitude slower at writing. Also flash drive cells have a limited
> number of write cycles before they go bad. Some flash drives are smart
> so that they rotate around where they write to even out which cells are
> written to but they will eventually go bad and the size of your flash
> drive will slowly shrink.
> Microsoft Vista has a similar feature where you can plug in a flash
> drive and it extends memory. I would think it would mean swap space
> since even though flash drives are fast for reading they are no where
> near the speed of the memory on the front-side bus.
>
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