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Re: HDD powersaving at music playing.



On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good day.
>
>
>  how I can load a lot of files into RAM so that a mplayer would not read from the HDD?
>

something like
$ cat [list of files] > /dev/null
should cache the files. If you have enough unused ram they will stay in memory.

or creating a ramfs and putting your files in it...
 (not tmpfs, it also uses swap)

bye


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