Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:27:52 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing |
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> It is called a ramdisk. I believe there is a howto. I can't see
memfs != ramdisk. Moreover, arguments below are pretty much void - memfs doesn't grab the chunk of RAM to hold. Its blocks can be paged out, on the same basis as pages of any process.
> how in todays technology age that ANY ramdisk speeds up ANY > system for ANY reason though. The memory is better used as > cache, etc... Forcing it to ramdisk needlessly wastes the unused > space IMHO.
You do not force it.
> I've yet to see anyone provide useful benchmark results that show > benefits of running ramdisks.
Sure, but it's *not* a ramdisk you are thinking of. Memfs has its suckitude but it's completely different one.
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