Dave Erickson wrote: > I've done a bit of searching and haven't come up with much but what I > was wondering is: can a person load an entire OS into RAM from the HDD > or network and then use a sync program to write updates to the disk > but actually run the whole thing in ram? > > What advantage would there be as far as actual speed increases? I > would guess the performance increase could be dramatic as there would > be no need to go to the HDD at all. > > I just upgraded to 1 GB of RAM in my desktop computer and started > wondering.... > I do not belive that it`ll give a big boost, unless you are executing _many_different commands from the disc, if there is a modest number of the commands, they`ll all be cached anayway. I do not belive that there is a way to load a filesystem into ram so that changes in ram a synced to hdd. to load filesystems into ram see tmpfs > thanks... > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list