Re: nifty swapspace trick

On Monday 29 October 2007 12:55:01 Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:
> > I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but I had
> > never heard of the idea before.
> >
> > While listening in on my boss teaching a computer class, I
> > heard him mention that Windows Vista has a new feature that
> > allows you to use a flash drive as virtual memory. Since
> > USB (and especially USB 2.0) runs faster than a hard drive,
> > a flash drive is an easy way to boost your memory performance.
> >
> > After rolling the idea around in my head a bit, I decided that
> > it might be easy to do the same thing in Linux using common
> > built-in tools. I had to try it to be sure, but it works!
> >
> > All you have to do is:
> > 1) plug in the flash drive and get the system to recognize it
> > 2) run mkswap to quickly format it
> > 3) run swapon to start using it
> >
> > Running 'free' will show you that you have extra memory available.
>
> Something you'd never want to do on a production server, only for
> non-critical things like desktops. Bare in mind that flash memory does
> have a very limited number of writes before it becomes unreliable.
> Ultimately, it will probably be smarter to just spend a little more for
> system memory than flash devices, and you'll get even more performance then
> that.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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This would be very useful to speed up an older laptop though.

Larry
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Received on Mon Oct 29 13:00:06 2007