[ubuntu-uk] SwapBoost - A great idea or a terrible misgiving?

[James Saveker]

Yep you make a lot of sense. So to go one step further does Linux have  
something like prefetch(taking flash memory out of the picture)?

Kind regards,

Jimbo.

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On 8 Mar 2008, at 18:41, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 17:10 +0000, James Saveker wrote:
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>> Whilst browsing the interweb today I came across this shell script
>> called SwapBoost.
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>> http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/02/swapboost-v01alpha-early-testers-wanted/
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> Everything you've said has already been posted in comments to his site
> as far as I can see. Although many are somewhat rude and misguided
> (flash doesn't have _that_ short a life), they have a point.
>
>> So I guess my question is do you think that even though this chap  
>> may be
>> a little wrong in his approach the basic premise would benefit some
>> Linux users on older systems lacking lot's of RAM?
>>
>
> Nope, not really. It's much better to load less stuff in RAM or have
> more RAM than load to much and have to swap all the time.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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