well, you dont need to put the WHOLE thing on a ram disk you know. I'm not sure how/if its possible in windowsX, but in linux you can use symbolic links to to put only certain speed dependant stuff on a ramdisk to speed up your server.
dont ask me how though, I havent ever tried that in linux, just know people do it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [OT] RE: RAMdisk to improve map change performance?? Ithink not | | 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! | |
