-----Original Message----- From: john <jaytee21(a)slingshot.co.nz> Sent: Wednesday, 15 April 2020 16:12 To: wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [wlug] ddr2 ram
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.
I don't recall it being able to use it as "physical ram", but I have seen a number of posts using a thumb drive as virtual memory (In windows). I see no reason you couldn't do the same in linux - format the usb as swap, mount and that would increase the virtual memory - not sure how much that would help. (I would assume that you need to use USB3 memory sticks, USB2 seemed to be plagued by flakey hardware when pushed) My google-fu is lacking on showing any way that you can use the USB stick as RAM - you *might* find a performance increase - I would think that investigating zRam might be useful as well. HTH