On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:37 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 15:04 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Frank Murphy wrote: > > > Use a usb-stick, formatted as swap. > > > It will be made use of on boot up. > > > I have four machines using them (up to 4gb sticks) > > > ymmv > > > > Note that questions have been asked about how long flash will last if > > used for swap. (But the worst thing that can happen is that the machine > > crashes and the flash becomes unusable). > > Has anyone actually compared the speed of pendrives versus hard disks > when used for swap?
They have to be much slower and pendrives have a finite lifew in terms of numbers of accesses before they fail. Using them for swap is a really bad idea, -- ======================================================================= Well, Jim, I'm not much of an actor either. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [email protected] -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
