[GRLUG] Solid State Drives

[Collin Kidder]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
>   
>> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> If you are using it then one of two things has occurred:
>> 1. You didn't buy enough RAM 2: You loaded more crap into your virtual
>> memory than you needed to.
>>     
>
> If we only did what we needed to, the world would be entirely without
> convenience.
>
> Consider the following scenario: My desktop machine will have 8GB of
> RAM.  That means that I can I can perform extensive, fast operations
> with video editing, and have much of my source data sitting in the
> file cache.
>
> Now consider that I probably have a Firefox window open with fifteen
> or so tabs and an average history of five or six web pages each.
>
> When I'm focusing on video editing, the older, old Firefox memory
> pages will eventually get sent to standby on disk.  Meanwhile, I get
> fast access to lots of video data.
>
> When I turn around and check my email, or look up a tutorial, or do
> anything in Firefox, those old pages can be put back in physical
> memory if they're needed.
>
>   
I suppose that I should have mentioned that when I wrote those two 
points that I meant if you are extensively using swap. It's perfectly 
fine to use it as in your scenario. It's not a very good idea to utilize 
2GB of swap space.