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[–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I init a ramdisk and put a swap file there and call it L4 cache

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    I actually did this for a laugh a very, very long time ago. I had upgraded my 75MHz Pentium machine from 8MB to a whopping 40MB, so since I knew it would run fine with just 8, I installed a TSR RAMdisk and told Windows 3.1 to put its swap on that drive.

    It worked great, but I decided I'd rather use the memory for other things.

    But in more modern times, I've literally forced browser caches into memory-based tmpfs to take the load off system disks, which is basically the same thing. And it reduces wear on my hardware.

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