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From: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com>
To: linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Subject: Re: Expand VM
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:58:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E302D43.4070001@WirelessNetworksInc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301231656.h0NGulDr001498@darkstar.example.net>

There is a good reason for that: Power consumption.

A large SDRAM disk would require refresh logic etc.  So you will end up 
with something closely resembling bad notebook PC.

John Bradford wrote:
> 
> I've seen loads of solid state devices based on flash memory, but few
> that are based on battery backed DRAM :-(.
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-23 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-23 15:56 Expand VM User &
2003-01-23 16:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-23 16:19   ` John Bradford
2003-01-23 16:33     ` Sean Neakums
2003-01-23 16:56       ` John Bradford
2003-01-23 17:58         ` Herman Oosthuysen [this message]
2003-01-23 18:46           ` John Bradford
2003-01-23 19:42             ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-01-23 16:18 ` Patrizio Bruno
2003-01-23 16:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-23 19:40   ` User &
2003-01-23 20:02     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-23 23:20     ` Thomas Cataldo
2003-01-23 17:09 ` kkonaka
2003-01-24 15:20 ` Bill Davidsen

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