From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:35:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD465E5.5050302@xunil.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910130039.33752.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
>> 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 :-)
Ah, yes, that's a serious thing to do ;-)
>> 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.
Good idea. Will try that now as I got my 8 gigs already ...
> Just make sure the total amount of data is significantly larger than the
> amount of RAM, to negate the effect of in-RAM caching. A CD .iso for example
> can easily be cached in RAM as well as have the copy too. The write to hdd
> will be almost instant the second time
:-)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-13 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-12 20:44 [gentoo-user] how to use RAM Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-12 21:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-10-12 22:01 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-12 22:09 ` [gentoo-user] " KH
2009-10-12 22:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-13 11:35 ` Stefan G. Weichinger [this message]
2009-10-12 22:45 ` Dale
2009-10-13 5:56 ` KH
2009-10-13 16:26 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-10-13 17:58 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 0:03 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-10-14 7:18 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 9:42 ` KH
2009-10-14 10:08 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 10:25 ` Dale
2009-10-14 11:31 ` pk
2009-10-14 11:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-14 14:33 ` KH
2009-10-14 15:04 ` Dale
2009-10-14 16:55 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 19:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-14 20:31 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 20:21 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-14 20:28 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 20:38 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-14 20:43 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 20:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-14 20:40 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-14 20:40 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2009-10-14 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-14 20:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-14 21:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-15 1:24 ` Stroller
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