Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:37:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing |
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Alexander Viro 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.
Ok, I didn't realize that memfs was not a ramdisk. Aside from that, I think my arguments about ramdisks sucking nowadays are valid. Nonetheless I see people in both Linux and win95 wasting valuable memory on their systems by putting various things into ramdisk and I get a chuckle because if all those programs really were used that often, they would be in cache memory anyways, and not permanently. ;o)
Take care, TTYL
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