On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:37:06 +0100, Antoine Zen-Ruffinen wrote: >Something is appearing to me as I read your instructions. I don't >think it is a good idea to swap on the CF. It will use it prematurely >as a CF has a limited read/write-cycle lifetime. But your instructions >are good anyway. >
Rubbish. Haven't you seen the new machines that use flash "disks" ? Yes, there is a cycle limit on writes (NOT reads) but trying to thrash a 512MB Apacer PhotoSteno to death for a year was a total failure. It is still running more than a year later in a 4801 doing firewall duty. I throw a completely standard OpenBSD on there using pxeboot. No X, no games, no compilers (NOT for security as that is another fallacious idea) and until recently I used a miniscule swap (that never gets written to) because OpenBSD used to complain. That's now fixed. Compiling special kernels, running ramdisk (in a machine that is low on RAM?) and all those other "hair shirt" measures are not worth the time they take. As an IBM Linux instructor (now retired) I sure know how to do all that stuff but my time is still worth money so I'll leave it to amateurs. R/ Rod/ A consultant is someone who's called in when someone has painted himself into a corner. He's expected to levitate his client out of that corner. -The Sayings of Chairman Morrow. 1984. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
