Jack wrote:
>
> Any good books/docs that explains how to do ram disks under linux? Is there a
> way to 'mount' a ramdisk?
>
> What would be cool is to throw the netscape and kvirc into a ram disk and to
> load them from that, it would be alot faster since it wouldn't have to run to
> the slow hard drives to nab these programs. Have linux load them at start up
> and from there on they would open ungodly fast, a? :)
That is going to take a lot of RAM
> What about putting web pages/ images onto a ram disk, no hard drive i/o over
> head, (apache + large ram disk, think of it)
Apparently Yahoo does that, actually they cache their site in ram for
speed. But I think for most users the actual benefit from ramdisk is
negligible, case in point Netscape constantly swaps when I run it. If I
had a ram disk it would have to swap even more, so there would be little
benefit. I prefer a one time hit.
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