> I occasionally use a 64MB ramdisk, for recording music (actually for > testing whether the HDD is a bottleneck in music recording). To use > the ramdisk, I say: > > mkfs.minix /dev/ram 65536 > mount /ram > > Can't remember why I used the minix filesystem, you can probably use > anything you like (e.g. ext2fs). minix is a minimal fs, that's probably why. i think there are better alternatives in 2.4 though :) > Anyway, try it. > Also I wonder if putting more memory in your machine would prevent > your program from being un-cached. i don't think it would. linux, to my understanding, will use all available ram for caching, when it can. it will throw out old cache (read: my program) for new cache (read: the music the player is reading) cheers -- Damien <bitwise@repose.cx>
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