Looking for a *QUIET* computer

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:04:18PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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...)

Ramdisks are useful.  Swap is not the same as a ramdisk, it is just
about the complete opposit.  ramdisks are for when you have extra ram to
use for something useful, and swap is for when you have not enough ram.

Len Sorensen
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