Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:47:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:47:14 -0500 Received: from [81.2.122.30] ([81.2.122.30]:14341 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:47:12 -0500 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200301231656.h0NGulDr001498@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: Expand VM To: sneakums@zork.net (Sean Neakums) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:56:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <6uy95bakrx.fsf@zork.zork.net> from "Sean Neakums" at Jan 23, 2003 04:33:22 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >> Use a swap-file on another machine on the LAN to extend your > >> virtual memory if you run out of local swap-file space. > > > > What would be really good would be a multiple gigabyte solid state > > 'disk', on a shared SCSI bus... > > If you can afford gigabytes of solid state memory, you can surely > afford to properly fit your boxes out in the first place. Good point :-) What I'd really like to see is a single device which appears as two logical IDE or SCSI devices, one of which has 512 Mb of battery backed RAM, and the other one 512 Mb of EEPROM. No need for expensive flash memory, just cheap DRAM, and a few NiMH cells to keep the RAM contents intact when the main power was disconnected. I've seen loads of solid state devices based on flash memory, but few that are based on battery backed DRAM :-(. John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/