This isn't directly related to swapping, but if anybody is curious about flash technology...
Al Fazio from Intel gave a good talk at Stanford EE380 last November. He had lots of details and numbers about flash technology. Good geek bait. Intel is selling flash based disks for laptops. They do the wear leveling and block rewriting in hardware. No changes to the OS required. Nice power savings. (Google for >Intel SSD< gets lots of hits.) Flash disks have real good seek times. If you pick the right benchmark, you can get some impressive numbers. You can get the slides here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/081112.html You can get the video here. It was on November 12, 2008 http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ When the next quarter starts, this quarter will migrate to the archives. Look down below on the left column. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
