Memory Speed Issues

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Memory Speed Issues
started by: vhangell

Posted by vhangell on Aug. 13 2005,22:11

I dont have enough memory on my new 'oldlaptop' and I can't buy old rams so... I'm adding more swap space.
Can I use a usb drive as a swap partition. Then which would be a faster swap partition? An ordinary (not high rpm drives) hdd, a usb1.1 flash disk, usb2.0 flash disk. Or are there other better solutions, aside from getting RAM?
I dont want to run out of mem space especially when routing PCBs and circuit simulations. thnx!

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 14 2005,02:59

Use the ordinary hdd

Flash drives are not recommended for swap partition or swap file.

They will fail due to too many disk write commands.

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 14 2005,03:01

Using a flash disk as swap is a bad idea. It will be faster than a harddrive, but it will die quickly. Solid state devices are currently limited to 1-10 million writes per sector, which will run out fairly quickly when using them as swap.

Posted by vhangell on Aug. 14 2005,13:52

ok thnx. i better look at surplus shops for old memory.

one more thing, after hd-install. what can I do to remove the hardware detection/autoconfiguration. Lets just say that I know all my devices and every modules I would need to use,and want to set everthing manually, no hardware detection, everything just set manually. How can i go about doin' this.

Is it worth it, in terms of speed that I will/might gain during the boot process? What else could you advise to speed things up? Thanks again!

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