I'm trying to create a ramdisk of approximately 128MB size.
Current configuration is Linux Slackware 3.6, Kernel 2.0.36, running on
Intel P2/333MHz, 256MB SDRAM, Adaptec 2940UW controller, Seagate 4GB UWSE
7200rpm disk.
I have a situation where I have roughly 80-100MB of very I/O intensive files
in a single directory (~3000 files), and I want to keep them in memory
instead of disk. Because of the frequency of the changes to those files,
caching just doesn't cut it. The program that creates and modifies these
files will rebuild them if the files don't exist, so I don't even care if I
lose the data.
I can successfully use ramdisks in testing, but the maximum size appears to
be 8MB. I get console error messages when trying to write more than 8192kb
into /dev/ramX. I cannot find any documentation on how to modify this
parameter.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Doug Apel
Sr. Network Administrator
Omnipoint Technologies, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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