swap area in ramdisk

Forum: HD Install
Topic: swap area in ramdisk
started by: Vectorscope

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Posted by Vectorscope on June 08 2006,18:16

Hi. I'm booting a HD-install directly from 256MB CF.
Is it possible to mount a ramdisc and put the swap area there?
Now I got additional ram (384MB over all), but never use more than 128MB, so i hope to speed up my little PC with a swap area.
What must I do? How can I create a ramdisk and put the swap area there...
Thanks in advance

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Posted by pr0f3550r on June 08 2006,18:28

I don't know if a HD install on a CF card is the best solution. If you want a ramdisk you're better off with a frugal install and then boot with the toram option.

But if you like experimenting and want to create a loopback file that you later can format as swap, here's a tutorial:
 http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1387/

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Posted by mikshaw on June 08 2006,21:35

I don't know a lot about the specifics of swapping, but it seems to me that putting swap in a ramdisk would be pointless.  The swap doesn't really improve performance (or even get much use) unless you are short on ram.  If you create a new ramdisk for swap, you'll simply use up your ram faster and require the swap more frequently.  It's a similar issue to that of a person wanting to try DSL embedded because Windows runs too slowly.

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