swap file

[eric©]

And a K7 is a pretty old proc...P2 equivalent, IIRC.  Memory on a PCI board
is also going to be considerably slower than installed RAM.

eric


On 12/25/06, bmike101 at cox.net <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for informing me of the drawbacks of my idea of using the pendrive.
> I suppose it isn't a good idea seeing as how you only get a limited number
> of writes to it.
>
> About the  solidstate drives: I guess i have a wish list now:D
>
> Seriously though my dad says they have memory on PCI so I will look into
> that.... then hesaid he would give  me his computer after he finished
> digitizing all of his vinyl. It is a Presario with 256M  of RAM and an
> AMDK7. Hmmmmmmm, presario isn't known for it's Linux friendliness is it.
>
> ---- Empty <plug at emptiedout.com> wrote:
> > If you really wanted to do this, the thing to do would be a solid-state
> > hard drive. Basically these are memory boards controlled by a hardware
> > SCSI emulator, so the computer thinks they are an actual hard drive.
> > They are expensive, and many are a pain to get working under Linux, but
> > they can be very very very fast. I had 5 SMTP servers once that we added
> > these to... After switching the qmail queue dir to a reiserfs fs on the
> > drives the things totally hauled ass and 2 ended up pulling the load 5
> > were previously.
> >
> > The problem, though, is you lose the FS on reboot or power outage. Ours
> > had a secondary power supply that we plugged into dedicate UPS's- just
> > keeping data in RAM alive is pretty cheap, juice-wise, so the UPS could
> > keep it alive even after an hour of no power.
> >
> > The only reason I can think of to do that is if you have a single server
> > you cannot upgrade any further in terms of RAM and it is bound on swap
> I/O.
> >
> > > what are the drawbacks to doing this? how could I automate this?
> >
>
> > It will eventually die a nasty death, and you really don't want that to
> > happen to swap.
> >
> > > man! why do most computers even have hard drives! Unless you are
> running a
> > > business.....
> >
> > Solid-state storage simply is not ready to rely on in such a capacity.
> > Jon Hansen hit the nail on the head with the flash storage problems, and
> > especially in a swap capacity (eg lots of writes) the limited lifespan
> > is a real problem. Great advances are being made in this area, but it
> > will be some time before spinning platters go the way of the 5.25"
> floppy...
> >
> > ~Ben
> >
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> > For you, it would just be a really long boast."
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