KH wrote: > Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: >> Greets, gentoo-users, >> >> as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main >> workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for >> the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional >> 4 gigs. >> >> OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ... >> >> I have some ram-disk already for compiling stuff (portage-stuff) and I >> can think of increasing app-caches like operas own ram-cache to make use >> of the memory. >> >> I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance, >> yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM. >> >> But are there any other things I might forget? >> >> Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really make use of it? >> >> I would like to hear your opinion on this, I am quite sure the >> gentoo-community knows one trick or the other ;-) >> >> Thanks a lot, Stefan >> > > Hi, > > you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of > data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of > read and write speed of your hdd :-) > > I often use the ram disk for creating iso images before burning them > to dvd/cd. This is a lot faster than doing this on an hdd. > > kh > >
Why not use hdparm -Tt to test the speed of the drives? It works pretty good here. Dale :-) :-)
