[rescue] G4 pricing

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:34:59PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2006, at 19:28, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> [...]
> > Wouldn't you get a speedy system if you put your page/swap file in  
> > a RAMDISK defined in main memory? It's faster than HDs, right???
> 
> You may jest, but it does help on some platforms that have fairly  
> cruddy virtual memory systems.

On my old VAX that only had 8 megs of ram, running NetBSD, I had it
swapping to an NFS mounted RAMdisk on another box...

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org