Using USB flash as swap space.

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:12 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > Do you have a reference of said article?
> > When and where was it published?
> >   
> 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.

Frankly spoken my first thought was: that article must have been
published on April 1 and Ray didn't realize.

You may want to look at:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system

to learn that Flash memory isn't well suited as a swap device.

btw: real memory outperforms any other means to speed up a system,
     except possibly handcoding crucial loops in assembly language.

regards
  Siggy
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