On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 17:10 +0000, James Saveker wrote:
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> Whilst browsing the interweb today I came across this shell script
> called SwapBoost.
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> http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/02/swapboost-v01alpha-early-testers-wanted/
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Everything you've said has already been posted in comments to his site
as far as I can see. Although many are somewhat rude and misguided
(flash doesn't have _that_ short a life), they have a point. 

> So I guess my question is do you think that even though this chap may be
> a little wrong in his approach the basic premise would benefit some
> Linux users on older systems lacking lot's of RAM?
> 

Nope, not really. It's much better to load less stuff in RAM or have
more RAM than load to much and have to swap all the time.

Cheers,
Al.


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