On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jack wrote:
> Any good books/docs that explains how to do ram disks under linux? Is there a
> way to 'mount' a ramdisk?
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> What would be cool is to throw the netscape and kvirc into a ram disk and to
> load them from that, it would be alot faster since it wouldn't have to run to
> the slow hard drives to nab these programs. Have linux load them at start up
> and from there on they would open ungodly fast, a? :)
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> What about putting web pages/ images onto a ram disk, no hard drive i/o over
> head, (apache + large ram disk, think of it)
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> No griding hard drives :) RAM is fast admit it, Mmmmm nanoseconds away from
> most commonly used files :)
If you use them often, they only get read from disk the first time, after
that the disk cache has them. Your idea won't help much.
Frank
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> Say it with me , NANO second :)
> Bud
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