[Tfug] battery life, power management and windows vs linux

[Benjamin Krein]

Joe Blais wrote:
> 
> I was at a winders vista thing, the microsoft people mentioned that vista
> could use a large, fast usb stick for the swap file area and improve
> performance that way.  I don't know the difference in power, but my guess is
> that a few chips use less than a spinning disk might.  I don't know enough
> about linux to know if it could be configured in the same way.
> 
> joe

What about the max write limit on flash memory?  I would think that'd
get eaten up in a hurry for swap if it's constantly being written to.

Ben