You should always have a little bit of swap space, I remember reading a few Slashdot stories about it. OS'es just run better with a small swap partition there, but upgrading the RAM so that it doesn't use the swap nearly as much is a good idea.<div>
<br clear="all">Rob Steenwyk<br><a href="mailto:rsteenwyk@gmail.com">rsteenwyk@gmail.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:46 PM, David Pembrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@pembrook.net">david@pembrook.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Michael Mol wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM, David Pembrook <<a href="mailto:david@pembrook.net">david@pembrook.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Michael Mol wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:58 PM, <<a href="mailto:topher@wcsg.org">topher@wcsg.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>> Could one use a usb mem stick for swap? they are real cheep (disposable)<br>
>> and getting faster. I'd got a 2gb flash drive I've been tempted to play<br>
>> with more.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Remember what swap is...it's an on-disk representation of data that<br>
> should by all rights be in RAM, but there's no room for it at the<br>
> moment. That means that having your swap drive go bad is tantamount<br>
> to random memory corruption.<br>
><br>
> That said, I've tasted that fruit in the past, and it's pretty sweet.<br>
> :-) If you go that route, buy a KINGMAX USB stick. That's as<br>
> physically small as you're going to find, so there's less risk of<br>
> bumping it and breaking it or your USB port.<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>as for swap.. I want enough ram not to need it lol. I'm not sure what<br>
device was originally being talked about but I'd be looking at a gig of<br>
ram for a quiet desktop anyhow. I should try it with and without swap.<br>
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