

64GB flash discs will be available in PATA and SATA flavors




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By lemonadesoda on 6/8/2006 2:45:43 PM , Rating: 1
Hello???? Read the post please. We are talking about the swap/paging file.

Please don't tell me you are recommending a "constantly crawling", mega-fragmented swap file!

By AndreasM on 6/8/2006 3:05:27 PM , Rating: 2

Fragmentation doesn't matter with flash memory as much.

It depends very much on your machine purposing. If you are running office apps, then you will not thrash the swap file as hard.

If you are running P2P, database app, or you are a graphics designer, you may indeed be working that little apging/swap file even harder.

Ditch Azureus in favor of utorrent and your P2P won't swap and hog all your RAM. I think database appers and graphics designers would be better of buying enough RAM so they don't need to swap. 2 GB is cheap nowadays, and should ensure that one doesn't need to chug along with constant swapping. :P

By lemonadesoda on 6/8/2006 7:03:24 PM , Rating: 1
...thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, laptop limited to 512MB. Otherwise laptop is perfect and would otherwise not need upgrading.


Please remember the following high-write activities:

1./ Registry updating
2./ NTFS last access
3./ IExplorer temp folder
4./ Paging/swap file

e.g. Loading PHOTOSHOP takes about 1500 reads and 300 writes.


e.g. Loading PHOTOSHOP takes about 1500 reads and 300 writes.









Fragmentation doesn't matter with flash memory as much.


By sonoran on 6/8/2006 3:47:40 PM , Rating: 2

If you can afford these babies, my recommendation would be no swap file at all. Just toss a few GB of real DRAM into the machine and forget about swap files (which are only needed when you don't have enough DRAM to hold what's "in memory" anyhow).

By ET on 6/9/2006 9:37:49 AM , Rating: 2
Do you know what will happen to a memory location that changes every second? It will never be swapped out! Unless you're getting swap file thrashing, in which case you're probably taking time to sleep while your computer is responding to you. The point of a swap file is to keep on disk the areas of memory that aren't active.

