Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk Message-ID: <6407@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 17:39:34 GMT References: <712@qetzal.UUCP> <4821@spool.wisc.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 23 As quoted from <4821@spool.wisc.edu> by dave@spool.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs): +--------------- | 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? +--------------- Tandy 16/6000 series can only address 1MB presently due to a brain-damaged MMU (recent hardware mod, hopefully soon to be released, raises that to 4MB at the expense of having larger memory segments); however, it's capable of *physical* addressing 7MB. So the Wizard of TRS (aka Bob Snapp) sells a 6MB RAM board and ramdisk software for it.... -- Brandon S. Allbery necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu {hoptoad,harvard!necntc,cbosgd,sun!mandrill!hal,uunet!hnsurg3}!ncoast!allbery Moderator of comp.sources.misc