Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!soleil!mlb.semi.harris.com!thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com!del
From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: RAM disk.
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.044625.12606@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 04:46:25 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.002300.15266@mlb.semi.harris.com> <6167@titcce.cc.titech.ac.j`> <758@sci34hub.UUCP>
Sender: news@mlb.semi.harris.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL
Lines: 15

In article <758@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>I think you're forgetting drive latency, here. A RAM disc will respond
>immediately, where a hard drive may take several ms just to find the
>data. Somewhere around here, I have a data sheet for a RAM disc with
>a SCSI interface. I think it'll show a lot of speed improvement over an
>"ordinary disk". Granted, not everyone has one of these, but I'd
>sure like one for my swap device.

Well, so would I, but if I could afford enough memory to replace my
swap device with a RAM disk, I'd rather just use that memory as main
memory and not bother with paging/swapping anymore.
--
Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
Internet:  del@mlb.semi.harris.com     PO Box 883   MS 62A-028
Phone:     (407) 729-5205              Melbourne, FL  32901