Re: Ramdisk [was(Re: computing speed depends on location of swappartition??)]

["Aranya" <aranya@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wait a minute! The only reason that you make a swap partition is because you
don't have enough RAM to accomodate everything that you want to put in it.
What's the point of putting up a swap partition on a Ramdisk when you would
be just using up your RAM. It basically means that you are putting things in
the RAM (as the swap) because you didn't find enough place in the RAM (as
normal memory). Wouldn't it be better to just let the RAM exist as it is?


>On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Lister Vaz wrote:
>
>> What is a ramdisk...and.. how does it differ from a swap partition
>> ?????????
>
>Ramdisk is a part of RAM that is used as hard drive. This option is
>enabled during compile time. So, you can make a file system on the your
>RAM, and mount it just as you mount /tmp or /usr or /var or whatever. Any
>data that is written on this file system will be lost once you reboot (as
>it's still RAM), but as long as the machine is up, access to that file
>system will be done at a supersonic speed (Disclaimer: I haven't tried
>that). You can read
>
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt
>
>Nice source!
>
>Manas



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