Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area
Right, I had this idea on another mailing list. Use a ramdisk for swap. It
allows programs to run in low memory and they can thrash to ramdisk swap
without affecting performance as much as to disk swap.
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 01:12:15PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> > Christopher, I think the RAM/swap idea is a bad one. More productive
> > would be making your swap partition at least 128mb. Then you can swap
> > all of your memory. (Although why you are swapping on 128mb is beyond
> > me). Also the 2.1.x series of kernels has done a LOT of work on large
> > mem handling. Try a newer kernel and see of that helps.
>
> I think you missed the point -- the RAM above 64mb is slow enough
> to be unusable for normal RAM work. Using it for swap lets you make
> some use of it; it'll be much faster than disk.
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> Hamish
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