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well, you dont need to put the WHOLE thing on a ram disk you know. I'm not
sure how/if its possible in windowsX, but in linux you can use symbolic
links to to put only certain speed dependant stuff on a ramdisk to speed up
your server.
dont ask me how though, I havent ever tried that in linux, just know people
do it.
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From: "Ken Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] RE: RAMdisk to improve map change performance?? Ithink not
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| On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
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| > 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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