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Feasibility of using pen drive as RAM depends on your usage. If its like you end up using swap daily, better go for RAM upgrade.
If it is like you use swap only occasional during heavy use, a pen drive can be a great alternative. You can even assign the flash drive as swap any time before the swap actually starts to get used as well.
If you have 8k of ram, you could "cheat" and setup a ramdisk as swap.
So perhaps you have 7 gigs of ram, and 1 gig of ram as "Fake cache".
I did real filesystem caching like this (my blog).
Only do it if you don't mind junking the 4 gig stick.
I ran my server's operating system for six months on a Corsair Voyager flash drive. The last two months it was read-only due to the flash dying. At the end the stick was complete junk and could not be formatted.
I didn't have swap on the drive, but I can imagine using swap on a USB flash drive would probably turn it into junk quickly.
I try to treat the cause, not the symptom. I avoid the terminal in instructions, unless it's easier or necessary. My instructions will work within the Ubuntu system, instead of breaking or subverting it. Those are the three guarantees to the helpee.
i had a generic 1gb drive fail after a week of running firefox off it
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I used an SSD, not a USB flash drive. And there's a difference between swap and filesystem caching. ReadyBoost is filesystem caching. Ideally, you'd want to never use swap. Filesystem caching, however, is very useful.
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