On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 15:01, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista > (4 > > hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian > > uses much less RAM (250 MB) than Vista (1 GB). > > Speculation: > > Less memory may mean more disk activity as you need more swapping and > have less memory to cache access to the disk. More disk activity > probably increases the power consumption (if the disk can't rest). > > -- > So can you put SWAP in a ram file
