Re: usb stick as swap partition

From: Wolfgang Gill (wolfgang_at_rpi.net.au)
Date: 10/15/04

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:53:49 +1000

    On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:32:56 -0500, W. Guy Thomas wrote
    > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 21:28, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
    > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:02:42 -0500, W. Guy Thomas <mrguytx@austin.rr.com>
    wrote:
    > > > I have researched this but it seems no one wants to do this.
    > > > Is it a bad idea?
    > > > I think it would be better than my little hard drive churning on this
    > > > old laptop.
    > > > A full 128MB stick.
    > > > Fedora sees the stick, I create a partition in fdisk of type 82.
    > > > I use
    > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1024 count=131000
    > >
    > > Well, have you used this usb stick for other stuff? If the answer is
    > > no, well, it's possible that you have a memory stick that uses the
    > > entire block dvice, not partitions, like /dev/sda instead of
    > > /dev/sda1.
    > >
    > > Anyway, as the other poster said, this is not recommended. Even if
    > > your hard disk will be free, this will slow down you computer even
    > > more as your system will be put to a state where the kernel has to
    > > finish writing to virtual memory before handing over cpu/resources
    > > again to processes.
    >
    > I haven't used it for anything except to format it as vfat and write
    > to it to make sure it works.
    >
    > Surely we can at least give it a try?
    > I have tried all the procedures I can find.
    > If anyone could pick up on where I left off and spot what I'm missing
    > I'd be most grateful.
    > I have done my research and am not asking for my hand to be held,
    > just some pointers as to what I might have missed please?
    >
    > thanks.
    >
    > G

    I would recommend to upgrade your RAM. That should stop most of the thrashing
    of your notebooks HDD. Or upgrading the HDD to a larger and faster one perhaps
    (That's if there is one available for your system). Your current approch is
    really pointless. After all I'm only trying to help you :-)

    Wolf 

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