Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-17 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com wrote: My wish is to figure out ways that SoaS can take advantage of the hard drive while still remaining a portable environment. Hmm...  Hey,  here is a potentially useful 'hack'.  Have SoaS detect the presence of a hard drive at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-17 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com wrote: My wish is to figure out ways that SoaS can take advantage of the hard drive while still remaining a portable environment. Hmm...  Hey,  here

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-16 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Art, Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines like the ones you've tested with.  As far as SoaS is concerned, I agree with your conclusions.  I got better results than you did with my Pentium

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-16 Thread Art Hunkins
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping) On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Art, Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines like the ones you've tested with. As far

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-16 Thread Jim Simmons
Art, Sugar on the XO does not have a swap partition because swapping to disk would quickly wear out the solid state drive. You'd have the same problem on a thumb drive, plus swapping to a drive connected to a USB 1.0 port would not be fast. Now the other idea of checking to see if the computer

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-16 Thread Douglas McClendon
Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Art, Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-16 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Douglas McClendon d...@filteredperception.org wrote: Bill Bogstad wrote: [swapping on hard disk with SoaS Anybody want to code/script this up? does /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys (search for swapon) in f11/soas not already do just that? I just checked both F11

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 89 (SoaS performance/hard drive swapping)

2009-09-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com wrote: As for swap, if you are repurposing discarded machines on any kind of scale you are going to end up with non-functional machines which are a great source of parts.  Strip the RAM from the dead machines and upgrade the