Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru Message-ID: <8545@gollum.twg.com> Date: 15 Jan 91 02:24:07 GMT References: <1991Jan8.213049.7683@motaus.sps.mot.com> <624@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 21 In article mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >BTW, if you look around in the Unix groups, you'll find people arguing >that RAM: disks are wonderful things (even on ther demand paged >virtual memory systems), and trying to find drivers for them. And no, >I can't explain that either. Well, see, I've always had this evil desire to have the swap device be a RAM disk ... ;-) Something that seems vaguely useful is in SunOS v4.1+ .. TMPFS .. which lets /tmp be allocated out of virtual memory. I dunno .... Now.. if swap space were to come from any free space, like it does on Mach, *THAT* would be useful ... David -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- MS-DOS ... The ultimate computer virus.