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Article #406Re: RE: Ramdisk! a wonderful idea!
From: Jim De Arras
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 13:27
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 13:27
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In article <1992Aug10.221515.5435@nas.nasa.gov> makarewy@rft31.nas.nasa.gov (Alex Makarewycz) writes: > Obviously some nexters' just aren't programmers! > > Having a Ramdisk containing cc or tex would spare my harddisk the > torturous reading and writing it goes through when recompiling. I can't > wait to get a copy! > > -Alex Makarewycz Well, this must be a serious effort! I somehow can't beleive anyone that could program a device driver wouldn't understand how unix VM works, but I guess folks have blind spots! I'd be interested in how he plans to keep the ramdisk ram resident. I suspect the os will be swapping it out as needed! Folks, if you need to speed your machine up, ADD RAM. Removing RAM from general use for a ramdisk, if it can work in any reasonable fashion at all, will otherwise slow the rest of the processes in your machine with the additional swapping you will need. Jim
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!uvaarpa!clem!news From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) Subject: Re: RE: Ramdisk! a wonderful idea! Message-ID: <1992Aug11.132758.22879@cube.handheld.com> Sender: news@cube.handheld.com Nntp-Posting-Host: dale Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc. References: <1992Aug10.221515.5435@nas.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 13:27:58 GMT Lines: 23