Comment My wife would kill me (Score -1) 249

by necromcr on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @08:29AM (#30456228) Attached to: Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki

if I'd be fidling with my phone while she'd be in labour.

Comment In this time of 'recession' (Score -1) 736

by necromcr on Sunday November 29, 2009 @05:49PM (#30264002) Attached to: Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?"

I'm glad I'm called at all.

Comment slashdoted (Score -1) 364

by necromcr on Monday September 28, 2009 @10:42AM (#29565617) Attached to: For New Zealanders, No More Phones as Sat-Nav Devices

.. on their remote broadband line. Damn.

Comment Sure it's fast (Score -1) 247

by necromcr on Thursday September 24, 2009 @03:45PM (#29532435) Attached to: Honda's Answer To the Segway

Just convert it to metrics!

Comment take away the fuel of the fire (Score -1) 125

by necromcr on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @02:42AM (#29282155) Attached to: Mount Wilson Observatory In Danger From LA Fire

Here's an idea: why dont they cut down all the trees around - that way there will be nothing to burn around the observatory?

Comment Obligatory (Score -1) 265

by necromcr on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @02:17PM (#29122179) Attached to: How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized

Pirate this: youtube - all about the money

Comment Obligatory: (Score -1) 652

by necromcr on Sunday July 26, 2009 @11:47AM (#28827367) Attached to: Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

..dumb scientists..

Comment anyone else shares my first thought? (Score -1) 41

by necromcr on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @04:23PM (#28786993) Attached to: NSA To Use Cloud Model For Intelligence Analysis

"Their ideas are up in clouds"?

Comment "Flooded in space" gives me a headache (Score -1) 219

by necromcr on Monday July 20, 2009 @06:06AM (#28754259) Attached to: Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out

Seriously. Did anyone else try to imagine how that looks like? Flooded toilet in 0.00x sth g?

Comment Where is the exit? (Score -1) 263

by necromcr on Monday April 06, 2009 @07:38AM (#27474115) Attached to: EU Data-Retention Laws Stricter Than Many People Realized

I want out! Hello? EU?

Submission + - Is Video RAM a good swap device?

Submitted by sean4u on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @12:28AM

sean4u writes: I use a 'lucky' (inexplicably still working) headless desktop PC to serve pages for a low-volume e-commerce site. I came across a gentoo-wiki.com page and this linuxnews.pl page that suggested the interesting possibility of using the Video RAM of the built-in video adapter as a swap device or RAM disk. The instructions worked a treat, but I'm curious as to how good a substitute this can be for swap space on disk. In my (amateurish) test, hdparm -t tells me the Video RAM block device is 3 times slower than the aging disk I currently use.
What performance do other slashdotters get? Is the poor performance report from hdparm a feature of the hardware, or the Memory Technology Device driver? What do slashdotters use to measure swap performance?