From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxT53-0007l5-KB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:09:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E77DDE0770; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95068E0770 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (dslb-188-099-239-106.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.99.239.106]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MOEPQ-1MuBp02qM0-0066RH; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:09:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4AD3A913.3050500@konstantinhansen.de> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:09:23 +0200 From: KH User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090914) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM References: <4AD3953C.5030706@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <4AD3953C.5030706@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+2lWXx7na4KIGN5miBpMNz+CE26m4TzEDrbs3 iGHEX8xxXSNZJQNhoXinrtQ3YaB59iygrx95f+du/EdBStctn0 w7XDX39qls= X-Archives-Salt: 9d640690-d891-47a2-bc3f-e307ba72a58c X-Archives-Hash: 1e0f21564a23d51620b19022221e285e Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > Greets, gentoo-users, > > as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main > workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for > the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. > > OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ... > > I have some ram-disk already for compiling stuff (portage-stuff) and I > can think of increasing app-caches like operas own ram-cache to make use > of the memory. > > I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance, > yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM. > > But are there any other things I might forget? > > Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really make use of it? > > I would like to hear your opinion on this, I am quite sure the > gentoo-community knows one trick or the other ;-) > > Thanks a lot, Stefan > Hi, you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of read and write speed of your hdd :-) I often use the ram disk for creating iso images before burning them to dvd/cd. This is a lot faster than doing this on an hdd. kh