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Re: [LUG] Swap hard drive?

 

> >> A cool 4G of swap at 0.1ms access time!
> > A ramdisk is faster
>
> But given that linux caches memory, isn't it better simply to leave any
> extra ram available for linux to manage than to assign it as a swap,
> which after all, is for when the memory cannot manage?

You obviously didn't follow the link (or didn't understand it). It's a
hardware ramdisk which plugs into the mobo. you could install windows
on it if you wanted.

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