Hi John I see you are managing to keep your brain active during lockdown. I understand it made a bit of a difference if you had a high spec USB flash drive - something a bit better than swapping to disk, but I never tried it. I have an HP Compaq dc7900 Small Form Factor Core2 Duo with with 4GB RAM and 1TB SATA hard drive currently dual-booting Sparky and Mint Debian. You could wipe the disk and install any distro(s) you want. Also has a rather worse for wear DVI monitor if you want that. You are welcome to it if you can work out a way of getting it from me to you. Stay well. Rod On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 16:12, john <jaytee21(a)slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
Some years ago, Windows Vista offered users who plugged in a USB flash drive the option of using the device as extra ram. I never actually tried this due to large amount of doubt about the functional ability of the claim. However I now have a number of Linux machines with DDR2 that I am unable to increase the physical memory of and wonder if this is a feasible option for these machines.
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