I didn't really use them, I just set them up for an engineer who wanted to write a large amount of data very quickly. I'm not sure he ever got to the point of using the system I set up for him. Sorry I don't have more info. Eric On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:47:21PM -0600, Liz Burke-Scovill wrote: > > What kind of performance increase did you see? This is a concern because > at least in Windows (yeah, I know can't really compare it, but hey) Domino > can be something of a slow mover - we want to optimize it every way we can > - we know that we see a performance increase in Windows, and I want to > test Domino on linux both using RAM disk and without using it - > > In response to another question Id' received via private mail - > > I was asked what I meant by RAM disk - in this case I mean configuring > extra RAM to be used as a RAM disk... > > Oh, here's another question - how would this conceivably conflict with > swap space? Or, does the way linux uses swap partitions essentially negate > the benefits gained by using RAM disk configuration? > > Thanks, > Liz > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, > Eric Stanley wrote: > > > I've used it under Linux although it's been a couple years. It wasn't > > a terribly big deal to set up then and it's probably easier now. The > > only issue I remember is that the default disk size was quite small (4 > > MB?). That was relatively easy to overcome. > > > > HTH, > > > > Eric > > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:52:22AM -0600, Liz Burke-Scovill wrote: > > > > > > Ok - I'll admit I haven't gone out and done any research, but thought I'd > > > ask as I get charged with researching various things to start moving the > > > company towards a linux based environment...... > > > > > > One of the things we're interested in looking at is RAM disk technology - > > > has anyone used it either in a WinTel environment or in a linux > > > environment? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Liz > > > -- > > > Imagination is intelligence having fun... > > > e-mail: kethry at winternet.com > > > URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > tclug-list mailing list > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > Imagination is intelligence having fun... > e-mail: kethry at winternet.com > URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >