I'm probably way off on left field, and thinking of old technology (well, a couple of years) but what about using an IBM 390 mainframe running Linux, with a VTS (virtual tape server) system connected to it? Or have those gone by the wayside to something else? I forget the specs on the VTS system, but compared to our old method of data processing it cut our total system processing time almost in half. I think we had two minor failures while I was at that job. Though, we were running OS390 on it then, as I'm positive they're still running it now. Shawn Liz Burke-Scovill wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > > Depending on what it is you're doing, you may want to look at the Linux > > Terminal Server Project. (www.ltsp.org, lstp.sourceforge.net) Diskless thin > > client goodness... > > > > How are you thinking of using RAM disks? > > See my previous post on Domino and RAM disks - at least in the Windows > platform, Domino works best if you have the OS & Domino on one spindle, > the databases on another spindle, and transactional logging for domino on > a third spindle...but because logging is reading and writing to a physical > disk (which isn't as fast as RAM) it creates a bottle next - and then if > you're in a small server environment where you have transactional logging > and db's on the same drive, it actually decreases performance because you > then have a double bottleneck. The theory on Windows is that if you have > transactional logging on ramdisk, then you save a read/write to the drive > and greatly increase performance... > > What I want to find out is if ramdisk is even worth pursuing in > linux because of the way linux uses resources. We know that in general you > have better performance for the same hardware using linux than > windows...when I have the resources to test it (ie., a box big enough to > handle the multiple spindles) I want to check the muliple spindle thing > and see if it's worth pursuing that in linux as well. > > Liz