Dale schrieb:
KH wrote:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
Greets, gentoo-users,
as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional
4 gigs.
OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ...
I have some ram-disk already for compiling stuff (portage-stuff) and I
can think of increasing app-caches like operas own ram-cache to make use
of the memory.
I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance,
yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM.
But are there any other things I might forget?
Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really make use of it?
I would like to hear your opinion on this, I am quite sure the
gentoo-community knows one trick or the other ;-)
Thanks a lot, Stefan
Hi,
you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of
data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of
read and write speed of your hdd :-)
I often use the ram disk for creating iso images before burning them
to dvd/cd. This is a lot faster than doing this on an hdd.
kh
Why not use hdparm -Tt to test the speed of the drives? It works pretty
good here.
Dale
:-) :-)
Hi,
that wouldn't involve the extra ram ;-)
kh