Re: questions about performance and setup

[Jason Haar]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:51:22AM -0700, John White wrote:
> > (I can put 2GB of ram in the box)?  Linux has support for making a disk in
> > memory, putting a filesystem on it and mounting it.  Wouldn't this take care
> > of I/O problems?
>  
> I'd read up on ramdisks first.  They aren't instant i/o.

Indeed. I haven't played around with ramdisks for a couple of years now, but
last time I benchmarked them, they didn't appear to run much faster than a
harddisk FOR READS as buffer caches on harddisks made them act very
similarly.... Writes would be a different prospect of course...

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Jason Haar

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