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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:54:40 +0100 Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:39:07AM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > > Which reminds me of someone I met years ago wanting to use a small > > portion of his RAM as a disk so he could put his swap on it. *Grant > > raises an eyebrow* > > RAM also doesn't have such a problem with wearing out after a limited > number of writes. Swap on an SSD would kill it very quickly. Which is why I'm always amused at Vista's plug-in-a-USB-stick-to-speed-up-the-system capability. Surely all it's doing is using the pendrive as additional SWAP... which will kill it quicker. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html