RAM usage

[juergen at fiedlerfamily.net (Juergen Fiedler)]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote:
> On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
[...]
> > First off, use a swap partition.
> 
> I can't touch the HDs of these machines - they're used for teaching by
> day. That's one of the benefits of the live CD approach in this case.

I found that a cheap USB HD works well in such a scenario. OK, it
works fine until your $29 4G drive starts getting flaky and the people
who sold you the item don't have a replacement so you settle for a
flash drive, which works for regular data, but not as a swap
partition.

So if you could spend a bit more than $29, you could carry your swap
partition around with you and maybe even have some space left to store
some of your files more frequently used files.

Good luck
 -Juergen
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