Re: USB Thumbdrive as swap?
Originally Posted by
JLB
definitely possible to do, but you'll wear that thing out fast as they only support a limited writes. I would not recommend it.
I want to question the benefit period. Is it noticeable, and are there any benchmarks (non MS funded)?
I know that in general using hd swap is like 10,000x slower than RAM (I mean come on milliseconds seek times vs a few nano seconds with RAM nowadays)
Although I've set Ubuntu to have a 2 gig swap on my laptop with 1 gig ram... I've yet to see my swap usage exceed about 19 kilobytes (I made it big for hibernate purposes, and out of habit, 2x was what I always used back in the day...)
So I don't think the tech would benefit me...
So you have a flash thingy, limited writes (what if it's yanked out during use), using usb bandwidth?, drawing more power?, if it's encrypted the computational overhead and possible lag?
Hopefully faster than a hard drive, but no way it's faster than RAM (correct me if I'm wrong)
Anyway, I'm one of those folks that is happy Ubuntu and apps use up RAM vs trying to stay in swap...
Also who is this tech targeted toward, high end machines with small amounts of RAM? Or what?
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