From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2001 - 15:59:31 EST
a RAMdisk is better for a swap file because:
in a notebook, running on battery, running one app or even two, with little
or lots of swapping going on, better to have less system memory and a busier
swap file in RAMdisk..
lower power consumption..
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "LightSide/ Click" <Light.Side_at_gte.net>
To: "THINKPAD_at_CS.UTK.EDU" <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: RAM disk
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 21:02:07 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
>
> >> Now some people say to me "Why put your swap file in memory when it is
used when you're out of
> memory?"
> >> I like Dr. Race's comment above. But in my case, I have a system here
at home that has 768 megs of
> >> memory. So to keep the harddrive chatter down, I've put my swap file in
a 128 meg ram disk. Yes, that
> >> means I only have 640megs of memory for programs, but I so rarely fill
that much up.
> >
> >This doesn't make any sense.
> >
> >Your swapfile file is used when you run out of memory. If you have a lot
> >of memory your system should never access your swap file. There is no
>
> True. But when it does, it's very fast. :) Again, it was to see if the
OS's would do it. And it can be done.
> Just another scientific experiment for when my mind goes idle. But I
thought it might be of interest to
> others.
>
>
> My $0.02
>
> Robert
>
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