Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 30 2007 14:27, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > Aaron Kulkis schrieb:
> > In reply on 13 June 2007 Henning Paul wrote
> >
> >   This [Linux without harddisk] is possible indeed....
> >   Here in our institute we do similar things. All
> >   computers run without hard disk.
>
> That's a diskless workstation, running off of
> other disk drives on a file server which is completely
> different.
>
> We were doing that with Sun workstations at Purdue
> in the 1980's.  But performance sucks.
>
>
>
> > And he asserted that 1 Gb RAM would be sufficient for running two or
> > three applications like Firefox or Thunderbird in a ramdisk.
>
> Depends on how the user actually uses those applications.
>
> I often open several web pages, but don't get around
> to reading them until days later....meanwhile, still
> doing all of the other web-browsing activity that I
> would still be doing otherwise.
>
> I have 2 GB on my laptop, and I'm using another 1 GB
> of swap right now.
>
>
> > The corresponding key word for having a kernel _not_
> > using the hd regularly is 'laptopmode'. I do hope that there are people
> > here in this group knowing a bit more about that than either you or me.

I know as much that repeatedly spinning it up and down is not good either.
So I better let it run and tune it so that it does not do too much activity.
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