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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> This might be worth the money for a niche small dedicated app that doesn't
> generate much data, but for HLDS files? My CS dir is 384MB alone! Any idea
> what size RAMdisk you'd need to put all the HLDS files in it? Would you
> store your log files there as well? If not, you've got some surgery to
> perform on your HLDS config, in order to write out to your physical disk ban
> file and logs in REALTIME. If your server goes down (the machine, not
> HLDS), bye bye ban file, logs, etc.
>
> Suffice it to say, trying to use a RAMdisk to host the files for an HLDS
> server is a crappy idea.
Well.. trying to use THAT ramdisk might not fly, but I think Quantum makes
something called an SSD (Solid State Drives or such) which is exactly as
it sounds. A hardrive made up of memory chips. Ungodly performance
compared to your normal spinning disk type media. Of course, they are
expensive as hell! :) Oh and they werent very big. I think last I saw
they were around 1GB max, but it's been awhile. Cant imagine what a RAID
set-up with these puppies would be like. I think the limitations of
current drive controllers would be the bottleneck.
What you need for the PC is something like the Amiga's RAD device. It was
a RAM drive that was recoverable after a reboot (usually). One of the
many neat tricks the Amiga was able to pull of back in the 80's.
But other than the intial map loading, there isnt a whole lot of disk I/O
on an hlds server is there (assuming your arent swapping)?
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