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From: dave@spool.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 09:11:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 09:11:54 1987
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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
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