Okay this has taken a very wrong turn here. I simply meant ? a practical use of this application where we want to run a production size build and deploy pipeline will require a good amount of RAM. I did not say that minimum requirement is 2 GB.
Nothing more and nothing less. On 5/4/08 8:58 PM, "sham pavman" <shampavman.cg at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > The aim of this project is to, > Provide boottime option to load cdrom contents into ramdisk or a harddisk > partition. This will speed up subsequent bootup. The Ramdisk module currently > depends on contiguous chunk of physical memory available to do this. This may > not be available early on in Boot. It needs to be investigated whether the > Ramdisk module can be extended to use an array of non-contiguous storage > chunks. > > (flicked from belenix.org <http://belenix.org> :)) > > Regards > Shampavman > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:24 AM, sham pavman <shampavman.cg at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> This is in response to Ajey's queries!!! >> I am not clearing understanding what your trying to say? >> Could you be more specific? >> If your telling that one needs to have atleast 2gb of ram for all this to be >> working then its worng!! >> I did all my testing ,on virtualbox and i had allocated a gb of ram ... >> I did not see any performance hits at all,also if its the case on Virtualbox >> then i guess you could be pretty sure that performace hits are unlikely when >> run on the physical machine itslef!!!! >> Could you be more specific? >> >> Regards >> Shampavman >> >> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Ajey Gore <ajey at thoughtworks.net> wrote: >>> No.. I am not. Basically, What I did not realize that mail did not go >>> throught completely. >>> >>> That means we need 160 GB Ram :-) >>> >>> If we have to run one of the build and deployment environment of live CD. >>> >>> Or if want to do a LOT of stuff on high computing. Then I do not think that >>> you can eventually do everything off normal 2 - 4 GB Ram. >>> >>> It was not a criticism, its kind of realization that whats happening in >>> other world. Google already has almost everything in Ram. >>> >>> >>> On 5/4/08 3:56 PM, "Sriram Narayanan" <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> What does "That means we need 160 GB Ram :-) " mean ? >>>> >>>> Other folks on this list are like me - we take things literally and >>>> would assume that you have either mis understood or are criticizing >>>> this notion. >>>> >>>> -- Ram >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Ajey Gore <ajey at thoughtworks.net> >>>> Date: Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [ug-bosug] Belenix 0.7 can boot from RAM >>>> To: Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group <ug-bosug at opensolaris.org>, >>>> Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> That means we need 160 GB Ram :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 5/4/08 2:11 PM, "Moinak Ghosh" <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Sriram Narayanan >>>> <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Wow ! :) Now that is a cool thing :) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Joseph George <Joe.G at sun.com> wrote: >>>>>>> I am not sure everyone on this list understands what this means to >>>>>>> BeleniX or another OpenSolaris LiveCD. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I agree. >>>>>> >>>>>> I can think of three different meanings for "Belenix boots from RAM" :D >>>>>> >>>>>> Some questions for you: >>>>>> - Would I now be able to do a PXE boot of Belenix ? >>>>> >>>>> No. This is a different piece. Loading the compressed image from >>>>> CDROM to RAM. >>>>> >>>>>> - Does this mean that I now have a means to remove the LiveCD >>>> after bootup ? >>>>> >>>>> Yes. >>>>> >>>>>> - Would this mean that Xen could now boot the OS off RAM ? >>>>> >>>>> Should be yes. >>>>> >>>>>> High speed bootups of VM instances containing Tomcat + >>>>>> a web app is a common use case in the Build + Virtualization world. >>>>> >>>>> If you want to do that you are better off using a different method. >>>>> Create >>>>> a ramdisk using ramdiskadm and boot a VM off that. >>>>> >>>>> This work essentially gives a slow bootup (5+mins) but blinding fast >>>>> execution and very fast installation after being booted - since >>>>> everything >>>>> is running off RAM. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Moinak. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> It's really great to see new stuff, and I'm looking forward to seeing >>>>>> your presentation at BOSUG ! >>>>>> >>>>>> -- Sriram >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> ~Joe >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 04-May-08, at 10:32 PM, S h i v wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:55 AM, sham pavman >>>>>>>> <shampavman.cg at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Its done now. >>>>>>>>> Belenix 0.7 can now boot from RAM!!!! >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sounds good ! >>>>>>>> You should talk about it in the next UG meeting. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -Shiv >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> ug-bosug mailing list >>>>>>>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >>>>>>>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >>>>>>>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> ug-bosug mailing list >>>>>>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >>>>>>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >>>>>>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> ug-bosug mailing list >>>>>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >>>>>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >>>>>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> ug-bosug mailing list >>>>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >>>>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >>>>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ug-bosug mailing list >>>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >>>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >>>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ug-bosug mailing list >>> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >>> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >>> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >>> >>> >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54
