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

[Jeremy D Rogers]

> The better way to do it would be to set up a RAM drive, and then just
> page to RAM (if you really need paging at all).
>
> At least that way you aren't powering a USB device, and you don't have
> to have a USB device plugged in constantly.
>
> Of course, you could argue that it would be more expensive (if you put
> in extra memory), though from a performance viewpoint it seems it
> would be much faster; and reeks a lot of trying to out-think the
> Operating System... (as you could basically play subtraction games as
> well... we aren't limited to a single "paging" device)

Uhh... Wouldn't you be better off just using the ram as, well, ram. If
you have extra ram, I don't see the point of making some of it into
swap when you can just use it as ram. I hope I'm missing something
here.