i have a computer with 768 megs of ram... if you find something and you wanna test, just let me know. that should be enough ram... i remember running an entire operating system from 1.4 meg disks...i think
--mat On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 15:05, John Hebert 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
