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I have become host, director of mice. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

You joke, but I did something like that. I NFS mounted a disk off my desktop to a RPi. I then made a swap file on the NFS file system.

I could then build a C++ project directly on the RPi because the build normally hit RAM limits. This was a 1st gen RPi, so it had 256MB RAM.

The build took forever (many days), but the program ran fine once built.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Tangential, but stuff like this makes me wish Intel's Optane had taken off. It was supposed to have the persistence of an SSD with performance near that of RAM, but it was expensive and the OEMs who included it relegated it to little more than a glorified drive cache.

    Imagine being able to allocate some of your spare storage as extra RAM the same way the Pi lets you decide the RAM/VRAM split. Or more realistically, sticking your swapfile on it and your build not taking several days even though you're only working with a quarter gig of RAM.

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