Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:36:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | RE: swap cache |
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> > Linux supports such easily enough; create a ramdisk, create a swapfile > > on the ramdisk, and then activate it. > > Is it me or is this the most singularly silly idea ever....
In general, yes.
> RAM runs short, so the system starts swapping bits of itself out to RAM > to free more RAM up.
In the old days of Windog 3.1, you /could/ actually improve performance on a 6Mb 486 [1] by putting a 4Mb swapfile on a doublespaced 2Mb RAM disk.
I believe that there were compressed swap patches available at one time, too.
Matthew.
[1] 386s didn't have quite enough CPU to make this worthwhile.
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