does linux have ready boost?

[900i]

Hi Jett, try these Ubuntu speed tweaks with Mint

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=107856
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=254263

[scorp123]

oh was just reading on digg that vista has a technology called ready boost in which if you use solid state memory like an SD card you can boot windows vista instaed of 43secs to 14sec.

is there a linux program that allows me to do the same?
maybe use usb or flash memory to fast boot linux?

If your PC supports booting from such devices you can of course use a USB stick as "disk" for your Linux installation. There are even distributions such as Damn Small Linux that are specialised on this area, e.g. be small enough so the entire OS including GUI + essential stuff such as web browsers etc. fits onto common USB sticks ...

[hairy_Palms]

you can do this already with linux already
like this

I RECOMMEND NOT DOING THIS!!

To add a swap file:

1. Determine the size of the new swap file and multiple by 1024 to determine the block size. For example, the block size of a 64 MB swap file is 65536, set it to the size of your usbkey

2. At a shell prompt as root, type the following command with count being equal to the desired block size:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/usbkey/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536

3. Setup the swap file with the command:

mkswap /usbkey/swapfile

4. To enable the swap file immediately but not automatically at boot time:

swapon /usbkey/swapfile

5. To enable it at boot time, edit /etc/fstab to include:

/usbkey/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

The next time the system boots, it will enable the new swap file.

6. After adding the new swap file and enabling it, make sure it is enabled by viewing the output of the command cat /proc/swaps or free

anyone could knock up a gui for doing this in 2 minutes and voila, readyboost for linux, EXCEPT
the reason why people dont do this, is that it completely knackers your usbkey after a few months.

I RECOMMEND NOT DOING THIS!!

besides ive been using vista since beta2 and it doesnt make any difference to me when ive got readyboost on or off

[hairy_Palms]

ok just re-reading the first post i thought i should state some facts about boot time

ReadyBoost does not claim to add physical memory to your system; it takes memory from a flash drive and uses it as a virtual cache for your hard drive. Will this make your games, boot-up times, and file transferring faster? No. ReadyBoost takes advantage of the fact that a USB 2.0 flash drive with decent quality memory is able to send up small chunks of data to the CPU many times faster than a hard drive having to spin up and seek across the platter. Conversely, a hard drive is many times faster than a flash drive when accessing large amounts of sequential data.

[scorp123]

your saying if i follow your instructions linux should ready boot. I dont want to use my usb drive for swap all the time,because that would be slower. I just want to use it for boot up, because its faster than the hard drive.

You don't need that kind of BS for Linux They came up with that in Vista's case because Vista is so damn slow anyway. If you want your Linux to boot faster you better follow the links that were already given to you. You can gain a lot by disabling unneeded services. That's the route you should go and not try to reproduce some stupid Windows experiments Microsoft had to invent because their new OS sucks so much.

[900i]

Scorp, Very true.