Re: CF and Swap

Most of the CF with 8GB are more expense compared to the cheapest
8GB SSD device (IDE, 8GB, MLC, here in Germany 35 Euros). And CF
are MLC, at least all the cheap ones! I personally would prefer
SLC devices, they last substantially longer compared to MLC devices.
I have a phenom II PC with a 64GB SLC disk, 32GB Win XP, 32GB
fedora 11 partitions alltogether, no swap (4GB RAM, x86_32). At my
opinion, there is no need for swap on machines with several GB RAM.

Joerg

Am Donnerstag, den 01.10.2009, 13:40 +0200 schrieb Marco Devillers:
(I am using daily digests since this is a high-volume list)


Thanks for your responses.


Yes the idea is to install a SATA to CF converter as a cheap SSD,
possibly
i'll opt for SSD, but this is just an interesting route I wanted to
take. Boot
speed I dont care about a lot, and I thought it would be interesting
to turn
the MacBook Air into a small embedded device. Its minimal enough for
my needs
as it is.


On the issue of how big the disk should be. I use some eye-candy
(svg-icons),
and stick to gcc/Python and vi. No Java, no IDEs. Occasionally I use
inkscape and
Gimp.


Am I correct in assuming that 4GB would be proper for the install of
FC10 + dev tools,
and another 4GB as playing space would be enough?


As for the memory mounted swap. Until now, I assumed that the kernel
doesnt
function properly without some swap mounted somewhere. So, on a 2GB
machine
I thought I could allocate 256MB just to keep the kernel satisfied.
Did this change in
recent years? If not, it should serve as a development machine, I will
sacrifice memory
for stability here.


Which begs another question: if I install a life CD to HD, is that an
installation
of a Life CD (with some of memory mapped disks), or an installation of
FC proper
with a normal layout. Otherwise I'll try the route of going with a CF
(cheap SSD)
and just run an install of Fedora Life on it. Is this an option?


Thanks again.


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