Loading it all into RAM would increase the speed at which a program loads because it wouldn't have to search a disc and cross the bus, however the gain in performance would not be noticed once loaded. The same latency as currently exists would occur when sync'ing to the HDD. Unless you can make RAM non-volatile, the performance increase would be killed by transferring the data to the HDD (which is really the bottleneck in a normal system, anyway.) Essentially, a great wish, but not really yet practical. ============================ Daniel Rysztak, CCNP http://www.druids-grove.net/ -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Dave Erickson Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 2:23 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] Loading the complete OS into RAM I've done a bit of searching and haven't come up with much but what I was wondering is: can a person load an entire OS into RAM from the HDD or network and then use a sync program to write updates to the disk but actually run the whole thing in ram? What advantage would there be as far as actual speed increases? I would guess the performance increase could be dramatic as there would be no need to go to the HDD at all. I just upgraded to 1 GB of RAM in my desktop computer and started wondering.... thanks... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list