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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org