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)? -- Ken Kirchner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
