On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 16:37 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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,
Pretty much what I thought. poc -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
