Re: nifty swapspace trick

In my experience, any laptop that is old enough to be that limited in
linux by it's RAM upgrade capacity will not come outfitted with USB
anyway. At this point, it's a mute argument, and it's time to find a
different use for the little bugger; but I still love my old 166.

-Ben

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.
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryanm@acsalaska.net
>
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Received on Mon Oct 29 14:51:16 2007