On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:43, W. Guy Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:29, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:02:42 -0500, W. Guy Thomas wrote > > > > > > I just want to cut down on the thrashing of my hard drive and if > > > this is slower, then fine, at least I can do other things since my > > > hard drive won't be churning away. > > > > > > Thanks for any further info! > > > > > > =G > > > > I wouldn't recommend it for several reasons: > > > > 1. It's way slower that HDD access. > > I don't care if it's slower. What's slow is when I do something like a > major yum update, my hard drive has to thrash to swap, I'd rather it > thrash to stick and let me continue on...this doesn't happen often that > I get in swap-thrash but I'd like to fix that if possible. I can't > upgrade ram or hd space in this laptop. > > > 2. It's also slower than main memory. > > That's ok with me if it's doing something I don't care about in the > background. > > > 3. It doesn't like constant access (Hence the resourse busy errors). > > I think the resource busy error is something I've done wrong in setting > it up. And it wouldn't be in constant access, only when I am doing > something extreme. > > > 4. It's not designed for that purpose. > > Of course not, but we gotta try don't we? ;) > > > > > Wolf > > -- > > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > > =G If someone might help with whatever steps I seem to be missing at least I could test it. That would be great, thanks. =G
