On 11 Nov 2002 12:04:32 -0600 Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mat i thought you had a crap machine when did you upgrade?
> 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
