Looking for a *QUIET* computer

[Christopher Browne]

On 7/12/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:31:47AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > Swap too.  ;-)
>
> Right, store swap in ram.  Is that the same as "buy more ram"?

No, no, what you want to do is to define a ramdisk, and declare your
swap space to go in this area...  There's a whole HOWTO on how to use
ramdisks...
http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html

(Warning:  Comments may be more sarcastic than they appear ;-).  Back
in the day, it was entirely useful when I put 256K of memory on my
Atari 800XL, which allowed me to define a 192K ramdisk which was some
70K larger than the size of a floppy disk...)
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Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This
is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and
`||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
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