Yes, you could mount your memory as a ram disk (ramfs type under Linux) partition. This was mentioned on this list 1+ years ago.
Otis --- Cheolgoo Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about using RAM disk and FSDirectory? It would be not so fast as > RAMDirectory, > but will be fast enough. > > On 7/8/05, Chris Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you're under an x86_64 machine (AMD opteron, for instance), you > may > > be able to set your JVM heap this large. But if you have 6GB RAM, > you > > might try keeping your JVM small (under 1GB), and letting linux's > > filesystem cache do the work. Lucene searches are often CPU-bound > > (during the search phase anyway) and loading into a RAMDirectory > won't > > help here. It's the second "phase" of search -- pulling all the > > lucene Documents from disk -- that's often I/O bound, and can > benefit > > from being in RAM. > > > > -chris > > > > On 8 Jul 2005 00:04:27 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to use a RAMDirectory to load a 5 GB index into > RAM on Linux? > > > I have access to a server with 6 GB of RAM and will try it next > week but > > > I've heard that Java on Linux may only support up to 2 GB of RAM > per process. > > > Anyone already tried this? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Cheolgoo Kang > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
