Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk
Message-ID: <8153@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 19:21:27 GMT
References: <712@qetzal.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 23
Keywords: /dev/swap

In article <712@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White) writes:
| 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

On a number of small system there are "classes" of memory which have
different access times. While the people with big bucks will undoubtedly
tell you to buy all new and fast memory, In many cases you'd rather not
have the CPU running in slow memory, but it's faster than disk for
swap/page operation.

I hope you get an answer, as opposed to a buch of people telling you
that you don't want to do it. I have another 4MB of slow memory, and I
would love to be able to use it for disk, and for storing frequently
used files.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me