I tried that... I originally put the swap on my file server and didn't use the harddrive once it booted into linux. The NFS swap was horrifically slow. I do not recommend it, however if your harddrive has a 10gig instead of an 8gig, you could use the extra 2 gigs for swap (which the xbox doesn't use). If that still isn't an option, you could use a fatx file for swap like Ben mentioned (which I have never done). Yet still you could upgrade to 128 megs of ram and try without swap entirely. but having 64mb of ram and NFS swap is a slow solution.
Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: > > >>I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard >>drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file on >>hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native xBox >>functions. >> >> > >If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps with the help of >additional installed RAM) then I could shut down the drive, gaining a >50-75% reduction in ambient noise. The noise from the XBox isn't a >problem when playing games since they tend to be loud anyway, but it's >a real distraction when watching a relatively quiet recording. > >I figure having a slow swap would make navigating the menus painful and >would delay the start of the playback, but once I'm actually watching >TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going on. > >I was hoping someone on here would have already tried it and could tell >me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't work so I don't spend >a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the wheel. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >mythtv-users mailing list >mythtv-users@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > -- _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
