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Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drivesOptimizing Linux with cheap flash drivesPosted Feb 21, 2011 10:06 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)In reply to: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives by Richard_J_Neill Parent article: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives
> the key benefit is going to arise from lots of RAM (8GB or more)
At the price of slower suspend/resume and (slightly) increased power consumption. Also, it will speed things up "eventually", but will do nothing for you if you just turn on your computer for some quick lookups and turn it off again.
No, it has to be a better way.
If cheap flash cards are weak at writting but great at seeking and reading, why not use them for small sparingly written files?. I think /usr and /etc would be good candidates.
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Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives Posted Feb 21, 2011 11:50 UTC (Mon) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
The speed of suspend-to-RAM doesn't change with the amount of memory you have, as far as I know. Did you mean suspend-to-disk aka hibernation?
Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives Posted Feb 21, 2011 14:36 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Yes, I meant hibernation, but I was not sure of the term for the reverse process (un-hibernation? thaw?) so I used the generic suspend/resume.
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