reddybost linux program not codes

bpb101

i am a very lazy person...
so dose anybody know if the a program in the ubuntu software center that reddybost for you instead of entering codes


or if there any talk within ubuntu as having this as option by clicking a switch when you mount a drive

or is there anybody working on a alpha or beta eddition

niallb

Do you by any chance mean "ReadyBoost" ?

bpb101

i do indeed ,typo sorry

bpb101

what is swap , never heard of it

and anything that would turn the usb tumbdrive to ram

bpb101

it a slow pc , 512mb and i only got a 80gb hd. and it full
so it not wort using then

thanks

bnt

Well, you actually can put Swap on a USB device if you want to. Some guy wrote a script to do just that, called SwapBoost.sh. I've never tried it, but I have used Swapspace (in the Ubuntu repository) to dynamically allocate swap on demand. You can tell Swapspace where to create swap files by editing its configuration. But heavy I/O like swap is not good for flash drives in the long run ...

PS: ReadyBoost on Windows is not simply swap in the usual sense. It's tuned to cache small random I/O only.