Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

KH wrote:
> 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
>
>

Why not use hdparm -Tt to test the speed of the drives?  It works pretty
good here. 

Dale

:-)  :-)