RE: swp - Re: ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard)
From: Alvin Oga <hidden>
Date: 2005-01-06 06:31:07
hi ya guy On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Guy wrote:
HAY! DON'T CALL ME GRANDPA!!!! Not for a few more years at least!
wasn't calling ya grandpa :-)
And I was there! And beyond! My first home computer had a 4K card and an 8K card, if I recall. It was 6800 based. I wonder if I still have it? I
ahh .. that's 3rd generation stuff ... 4004 and Z8 and lots o no-namebrand what-you-ma-call-it-kits and i forgot what predated 6800 in motorola/zilog besides z8 .. getting too old
You said memory was 10x the cost of disks. In the example above, memory is 25x more than disk. Today it is about 100x.
500x - 1000x in my book but that depends on how one counts
Maybe we should be swapping even more, now? :)
disks are cheaper per byte of storage ??? 500MB for $50 250,000MB for $250 ( 250GB disks ) i leave it to you math wiz folks to generate $$$/MB c ya alvin