Solid State RamSan Drive

[UchihaMadara]

Hey Forum

Newb here that is checking out Yellow Dog before buying a ps3. Was wondering because of the limited available RAM, is multitasking an issue? Has anyone installed TuxGuitar successfully onto Yellow Dog? Could a Solid State RamSan Drive, or other Solid State SD Card be used for increasing virtual memory for Yellow Dog?

[billb]

Newb here that is checking out Yellow Dog before buying a ps3. Was wondering because of the limited available RAM, is multitasking an issue? Has anyone installed TuxGuitar successfully onto Yellow Dog? Could a Solid State RamSan Drive, or other Solid State SD Card be used for increasing virtual memory for Yellow Dog?

Here's a screenshot where I'm running IE in Windows 98 via QEMU, AWEB on Amiga OS3.X via E-UAE, Warcraft II on Mac OS 7.5.3 via Basilisk II, Super Mario Advance 2 via Mednafen, and two Firefox windows on YDL6, one playing a video on youtube, plus there are three terminal windows open. Oh, and waaah I don't have enough memory on my PS3. No extra virtual memory added, and yes at this point it was getting a bit slow switching between applications. I'd say multitasking isn't a big issue, though...

Solid state RamSan drive sounds expensive ... ? I haven't found a solid state sata drive that looks economical enough yet. Using USB / SD / CF / MS cards for swap are all slower than the internal drive, as far as I know. I haven't really figured a way to test it, though. I guess I could try compiling something that maxes out the ram and time it with / without the extra swap.

I have seen tuxguitar but haven't tried installing it yet. Looks nice.

[UchihaMadara]

Thanks for the Insight, I have to be honest...Yellow Dog Linux Scares me senseless. I love the idea of it, but I have not used linux before, and wonder if I am up to the challenge.