Re: [Staffslug] Swap question
On 17 October 2010 01:06, Tom Hill <tom(a)ninjabadger.net> wrote:
It's only a benefit if you've run out of memory (and swap use
is
on-going) at the same time that you're trying to read/write from your
regular partitions.
Swap is generally very bad over more RAM, given the insanely slow speed
of reading/writing to disk when compared with RAM.
There's something to be said for using NAND flash memory as swap space,
particularly better-performing devices, given the low access times.. But
in reality, more RAM is the way forward except in a very small few,
desperate circumstances.
Tom
I'm inclined to class this as one of those very small desperate cases.
The machine only has 256mb of RAM. It's ECC RAM because it's meant
to be a server, makes sense. Supposedly it should accept non-ECC RAM
but for some reason it won't other wise I could double what is there
straight away. I'm not mixing the two types by the way as I know that
is a no no. I happen to have a couple of 256mb non ECC PC133 sticks
that are known good and it should accept this size. It doesn't so I'm
not going to messa bout and waste time. There is nothing in the BIOS
either to set it for non ECC RAM, again, I've gone through every bit
of it.
I just happened to come across a good working 1gb HDD the other day
and wondered about using it a dedicated swap drive.
All this has come about because I am sorting through the loads of old
PC's that I have sitting around doing nothing. Most are useless
unless I really want half a dozen PC's running Puppy or DSL; most will
not even run that because the power supplies are dead :-( I'm just
seeing what I actually do have, an inventory if you like. Then I'll
get rid of the stuff I don't want so that I can actually move in my
workshop :-)
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