It was thus said that the Great John R. once stated:
There's a subproject of the One Laptop Per Child
project that is
creating a virtualized swap file with compressed swapped pages. Then
you could swap to a RAM filesystem. It would work well for
uncompressed data but obviously it wouldn't work well for jpgs, pngs,
etc.
The question would be how much precious RAM to dedicate as swap. Or
maybe you could swap to a network file system (slow, but might allow
some programs to run that otherwise would not run at all).
Um ...
Am I missing something here?
Because I'm reminded of this quote (from my quote file):
Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!
-- lennox at
shire.hw.stratus.com
Swap is to create the illusion of more memory by using a slower medium
(like disks) to backup the physical RAM. What, exactly, is the point of
swapping RAM to RAM?
-spc (Not doubting the purpose of RAM disks mind you, just swapping
to a RAM disk ... )