[ILUG] Thoughts on USB as swap space

[Frank Murphy]

Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 1 Jan 2008, at 12:25, Colm Buckley wrote:
>
>> On 1/1/08, Frank Murphy <frankly3d.weblists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thinking on the other crowds MaleSheepSpeederUpper idea,
>>> during install could a usb stick be designated as swap?
>>> If so can you use up say the full 4gb or whatever size is involved?
>>
>> Theoretically, yes, but I'd be inclined to think of this as a bad 
>> idea in
>> practice -
>
> What Colm said, in spades But also, you specifically mentioned "during 
> install". On anything like a modern machine you should have more than 
> enough memory to do an install without needing swap (during the 
> install, that is).

I meant to say "specify usb" during install\setup., but as it's not a 
runner, basically mute.
As I will be running MS Win 3D apps using Crossover Linux.
How much swap should be needed\(is it really need) say with a P4 
duo-core-quad, possibly min 4gb ddr2 ram.
Should it go on a partition with the main os files usually hda(0-9),  or 
separate physical drive hdb,c (0-9) etc..

Frank