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From: rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk
Message-ID: <712@qetzal.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 16:29:22 EST
Article-I.D.: qetzal.712
Posted: Sun Dec  6 16:29:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 04:09:41 EST
Organization: Mentor Software Inc., Thornton, Co.
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Keywords: /dev/swap

Hello Wizards,

Watching my poor little unix boxes swap, it occurred to me:
why not utilize some extra ram to implement /dev/swap? It seems that
the machine would speed up quite a bit, and hey, extra memory
is pretty inexpensive, at least for the smaller 
unix boxes. Also, it would be tactically easier to
increase the amount of "swap" memory as opposed to repartitioning
my disks, or mounting a disk pack under /tmp or some other 
horrid kludge.

I've never seen anyone mention this, and it may be that it would
require major hacking on the kernel, but you guys know best...

Robert White

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