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

[Raj Mathur <raju@xxxxxxx>]

No one's advocating you use a RAMdisk as swap -- as you say that'd be
sheer foolishness.  The idea is that you can create RAMdisks and put
heavily-used directories like /tmp on them.

- -- Raju

>>>>> "Aranya" == Aranya  <aranya@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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