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From: dick@cca.ucsf.edu (Dick Karpinski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: RAM disk.
Summary: Some RAM is cheaper than other RAM.
Message-ID: <3158@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 18 Sep 90 23:13:25 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.002300.15266@mlb.semi.harris.com> <6167@titcce.cc.titech.ac.j`> <758@sci34hub.UUCP> <1990Sep18.044625.12606@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Reply-To: dick@ccnext.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
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In article <1990Sep18.044625.12606@mlb.semi.harris.com> del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) writes:
>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, ... RAM disc with a SCSI ... 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.

I want the RAM disk (who makes it?) 'cause the cheap RAM is $50/MB 
while IBM RAM for the 6000 is $600/MB.  I don't know that the RAM disk
is priced right but there is sure some room for that posibility.

Dick