Re: [Staffslug] Swap question

Here's one for you guys. On this old Proliant ML 330e (mentioned in my previous posts this week) I only have 256mb of PC 133 ECC RAM. It's a 1.0ghz P3 CPU. So, with this in mind would it be better performance wise to have 'swap' as an entirely separate hard drive? I found an old 1gb drive which is what made me wonder about this. It would be good to upgrade the RAM and do have some non-ECC stuff but the BIOS will not accept it and having gone through the settings (in BIOS) there doesn't appear to be any way of allowing its use. So. Any ideas? Anybody tried experimenting in this way? If so does it make any 'significant' improvement or is it not worthwhile doing? Take care. -- ============================================== Kevan Linux user #373362 Staffordshire ********************************************** www.freeworld-recycling.org 'From me to you towards a sustainable future.' ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug