On Oct 30 2007 14:27, Aaron Kulkis wrote: >> Aaron Kulkis schrieb: >> In reply on 13 June 2007 Henning Paul wrote >> >> This [Linux without harddisk] is possible indeed.... >> Here in our institute we do similar things. All >> computers run without hard disk. > > That's a diskless workstation, running off of > other disk drives on a file server which is completely > different. > > We were doing that with Sun workstations at Purdue > in the 1980's. But performance sucks. > > > >> And he asserted that 1 Gb RAM would be sufficient for running two or >> three applications like Firefox or Thunderbird in a ramdisk. > > Depends on how the user actually uses those applications. > > I often open several web pages, but don't get around > to reading them until days later....meanwhile, still > doing all of the other web-browsing activity that I > would still be doing otherwise. > > I have 2 GB on my laptop, and I'm using another 1 GB > of swap right now. > > >> >> The corresponding key word for having a kernel _not_ >> using the hd regularly is 'laptopmode'. I do hope that there are people >> here in this group knowing a bit more about that than either you or me.
I know as much that repeatedly spinning it up and down is not good either. So I better let it run and tune it so that it does not do too much activity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
