Using USB flash as swap space.

Ray Parrish crp at cmc.net
Tue Aug 4 18:12:30 UTC 2009


Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:02 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently read an article that states that using a USB flash drive as 
>> swap space can help speed up a low memory system since the flash drive 
>> is faster than a hard drive.
>>     
>
> Do you have a reference of said article?
> When and where was it published?
>  
> Thanks
>   Siggy
>   
Sadly no... I have searched my browser history, and can find no evidence 
that I read such an article, and am beginning to wonder if I 
hallucinated it. 8-) Maybe I read it on my friend's computer and then 
looked up information on the flash drives afterwards on mine, as I do 
find quite a few links to flash articles in my history for yesterday.

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