Answering my own question: I see that the Linux Router Project does something like this, but I was thinking of much more than that.
One GB of RAM will cost anywhere from $100 to ~$700, depending on the speed. Which RAM is the fastest, or where should I look to find that out? 11/9/2002 15:05, John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anybody know of a *NIX distro that runs from a RAM drive? What would the >performance gain be? > >I just read about a RAM drive card on /. that can do 2GB, but the cost is >nutz. So I was thinking that since RAM is fairly cheap now and mobos are >supporting >larger amounts of RAM it would be cool to have a distro where the entire >filesystem in a big RAM drive. Permanent storage could be achieved by writing >the >contents of the RAM drive to the hard drive. It seems that something like this >would run faster than accessing a file system via the hard drive. The only >drawback is keeping power up to the box, but with UPSs and the reliable >hardware available now, the risk would be worth the extra speed for certain >applications. -- John Hebert
