I have a fairly fast system. Not that I need any more speed, I was wondering about the Swap Partition. Would I gain any performance if I installed a 2 GB smart card in the internal USB 2.0 Smart Media Card reader and made that my Swap? The card I would use would be permanently left in a slot I don't use anyway. I assume that there would be some gain due to the seek time of a HDD vs. a memory module.

Any thoughts?

How much swap are you using? Are you running any really intensive memory applications? Besides USB is not as fast as IDE and have you compared the latency of a hard drive vs speed of USB?

BTW do you use other USB memory devices? Does the PC always recognize the card reader 1st? It is possible that the device ID will change if you have other USB devices pluged in at boot. Usually USB modules are loaded after the OS mounts the filesystems via fstab. So you will need to activate swap as the last thing or compile the USB modules in the kernel or add them to the initrd.

:lol: So what you are saying is that I am better off keeping things as they are.

IMHO yes.