RAM Disks in Linux???
David Cole
metalgrow at cds1.net
Thu Jul 8 18:44:18 PDT 1999
Help!!!
I can use any sugestions, I can't find anything about this online
With PC100 memory prices as low as $30 for 64Mb,
I want to try a RAM Linux SWAP Drive,
instead of Hard Drive system Linux SWAP Partition.
Does anyone even have a guess at how I would do it.
I have Red Hat 5.2, Pentium II 400 with 128Mb of PC100SD Ram.
I would like to use about 64Mb for general RAM
and 64Mb Ram System SWAP Drive???
This would be for my CGI web server Linux box.
I know its killing a knat with an elephant gun,
but it sounds hard enough to be fun.
More stable system: Long term, Ram doesnt corrupt bits
like Hard Drives can :)
And oooboy itd be fast :)
the performance difference between RAM and any HD is huge.
You can run a 486DX2 out of ram faster than you can run a
PII out of a SCSI Hard Drive.
Hard Drives are in milliseconds and RAM is in nanoseconds.
Thanks
David Cole
email: MetalGrow at cds1.net
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