Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!uwvax!dave@spool.wisc.edu From: dave@spool.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk Message-ID: <4821@spool.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 09:11:54 EST Article-I.D.: spool.4821 Posted: Mon Dec 7 09:11:54 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 07:43:33 EST References: <712@qetzal.UUCP> Sender: news@spool.wisc.edu Reply-To: dave@spool.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 15 Keywords: /dev/swap In article <712@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White) writes: >Watching my poor little unix boxes swap, it occurred to me: >why not utilize some extra ram to implement /dev/swap? The idea is that when you add memory, you shouldn't *have* to swap. I know that when my workstation goes up to 10meg (oh where, oh where did that purchase order go?), I'm not going to be worrying about what kind of device implements /dev/swap, at least until I expand to using more than 10meg at the same time. Are there really brain-dead UNIX-like things out there that can't see all of memory? dave Dave Cohrs +1 608 262-6617 UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department dave@cs.wisc.edu ...!{harvard,ihnp4,rutgers,ucbvax}!uwvax!dave