shollen@spectrum.wright.edu (Sheila Hollenbaugh) (09/23/89)
Has anyone out there created a RAM disk on a Sun, or know if anyone has already done so, or know where to look to get started? Please email, as I do not read the news consistently enough to assure that I would see replies. And many thanks in advance. Sheila Hollenbaugh (513) 259-1382 CSNET: shollen@SPOTS.Wright.Edu Wright State University Research Center UUCP: ...!osu-cis!wright!shollen 3171 Research Blvd., Kettering, OH 45420 ...!uunet!ncrlnk!wright!shollen It's always something. --Gilda Radner (1946-1989)
weber@uunet.uu.net (Jeff Weber) (09/25/89)
In article <1636@brazos.Rice.edu> you write: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 131, message 9 of 11 > > >Has anyone out there created a RAM disk on a Sun, or know if anyone has >already done so, or know where to look to get started? We put a small local swap disk (lsd) on a bunch of our 3/50 and 3/60 clients that we networked. It really helped. Details available if this story applies..... We also put a 40MB RAM Disk on a 386i to be used as swap disk. This helped but was MUCH more expensive then the above hard disk. I'm not sure that putting an actual RAM disk on the SCSI bus makes too much sense. The disk is real fast (memory speeds) but the bus is real slow (by comparsion). More system memory is the more cost effective method if there's room. I can send you more info about either if they sound like what you're after. Jeff Weber