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Dale schrieb: |
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> KH wrote: |
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>> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: |
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>>> Greets, gentoo-users, |
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>>> |
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>>> as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main |
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>>> workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for |
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>>> the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional |
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>>> 4 gigs. |
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>>> |
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>>> OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ... |
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>>> |
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>>> I have some ram-disk already for compiling stuff (portage-stuff) and I |
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>>> can think of increasing app-caches like operas own ram-cache to make use |
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>>> of the memory. |
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>>> |
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>>> I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance, |
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>>> yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM. |
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>>> |
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>>> But are there any other things I might forget? |
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>>> |
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>>> Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really make use of it? |
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>>> |
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>>> I would like to hear your opinion on this, I am quite sure the |
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>>> gentoo-community knows one trick or the other ;-) |
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>>> |
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>>> Thanks a lot, Stefan |
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>>> |
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>> Hi, |
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>> |
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>> you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of |
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>> data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of |
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>> read and write speed of your hdd :-) |
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>> I often use the ram disk for creating iso images before burning them |
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>> to dvd/cd. This is a lot faster than doing this on an hdd. |
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>> kh |
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> Why not use hdparm -Tt to test the speed of the drives? It works pretty |
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> good here. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Hi, |
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that wouldn't involve the extra ram ;-) |
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kh |
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