[mdlug] supplemental memory?

[Michael Mikowski]

Off the top of my head, probably the closest you are going to get is to use a memory card as your swap space, assuming it is faster than your HD (which it might not be!).  See the 'swapon' command.  Of course, this assumes you can format your memory device to a swap partition (and a few other things).  But hey, its a thought.

As for extending system memory, then only practical approach seems to be is to add memory sticks.  System memory is many, many times faster than memory cards because it uses different technology (e.g. it doesn't need to be persistent).


$0.02




----- Original Message ----
From: Dean Durant <mdlug at wowway.com>
To: mdlug <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 7:25:40 AM
Subject: [mdlug] supplemental memory?

Hello, I've gotten to wondering if it's possible to use other devices as memory, like a usb stick, or pcmcia, or even like these little camera memory chips or whatever. This guy where I work has this little tiny chip that he says is 2 GB of storage. It's like half the size of my thumbnail, and not too much thicker. I was amazed when I saw it. 

And so what I mean is during boot, if the kernel sees some sort of high speed storage, can it use that to load programs or anything? 

I know this is a vague question. This is something a legacy OS offered a couple years back or so they claimed. I don't know how well it worked. 

If this were possible, I'm thinking I could do things with my old laptop that might be really slow using virtual. Right now I have damn small on my laptop, and it runs well. I just need to upgrade the kernel, get the right wireless device, and see if I can upgrade firefox, and then it will be perfect for my purposes. 

Just curious, thanks. 
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