Dear List My friend has a very low end computer with 128 MB RAM with Fedora 3 running on it. Can he use a USB stick as RAM. I know that wont help much. But people at different forums have suggested to use USB flash drive as a SWAP partition to improve performance. Will that help to some extent? Is there anything called USB RAM?
On Thursday 07 Aug 2008 20:00, Devranjan Das wrote:
Dear List My friend has a very low end computer with 128 MB RAM with Fedora 3 running on it. Can he use a USB stick as RAM. I know that wont help much. But people at different forums have suggested to use USB flash drive as a SWAP partition to improve performance. Will that help to some extent?
Writing to flash is slooooo. So whenever you need to flush RAM things will slow to a crawl. Besides the cost of a 256 or 512MB RAM is lower than a usb stick. If it's an old low end comp it will have USB1.0 which is even slower.
Is there anything called USB RAM?
No afaik
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