[rescue] G4 pricing

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Thu Aug 17 13:48:05 CDT 2006


On 17 Aug 2006, at 19:27, Joshua Boyd wrote:
[...]
> Page to a RAMDISK is redundant.  Turn off swap instead.  I've done it
> with good sucess on numerous linux systems.

Sure, but that's Linux - but it *does* help some of the really crummy  
versions of that ugly graphical shell atop a glorified program loader.

In any case, disk is cheap and you might as well have loads of swap  
on a Linux box and use it to back tmpfs on /tmp, /var/spool/exim4/ 
cache and so on.



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