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A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage).

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Improving Exim performance: mounting message queue on RAMdisk

I have an email server that's part of a messaging application, and it's going to see a lot of throughput. I want to mount Exim's message queue on a RAMdisk to maximize performance; throughput speed ...
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Ramdisc for two directories sharing the same memory space?

I need to put two directories into a ramdisc. They share the same parent directory but I can't make that parent directory part of the ram disc. How would I go about doing this?
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Ramdisk vs Build-In IO Caching on Windows

I'm trying to understand the built-in IO cache on Windows. If an application writes to a file, and then reads/writes it multiple subsequent times, it seems that the IO cache should allow this to ...
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How do you create a linux (RHEL) bootdisk that runs busybox in a ramdisk (initrd)?

I've been trying to create a bootdisk (something like a live-cd) which loads into memory-only without mounting the disk. My steps are listed below, but when I boot using the cd, I get: Kernel Panic - ...
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free ramdisk for windows 64bit

Is there a free ramdisk utility for windows 2003 64bit OS?
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How to create a RAM Drive (RAM Disk) in Windows 2008 R2?

There are lots of tools for creating RAM drives. None of them seem to work for windows 2008 R2. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so how. Does anyone know of a tool that does work? I've ...
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Unable to create ramdisk after updating to 2.6.32

I've upgraded one of our servers (debian lenny) from backports. It upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32-trunk-amd64, and switched the disk access to UUID. Everything works fine, however, /dev/ram0 no longer ...
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What could be a good configuration for a testing machine?

In Zentyal we use virtualization (ANSTE) to perform automatic tests that require scenarios with several machines interacting in one or several networks. Currently we have a multicore Xeon machine with ...
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Which software to use for RAMDISK on Windows 2008?

I am building a server machine with lots of RAM. At least 16G. I am planning to put my frequently read and written data in RAM so I am looking for software for creating RAM disks. This is for Windows ...
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What do you use for a RAM disk on Windows Server?

We currently use AR Soft RAM Disk on some Windows 2003 servers for storing short lived temporary files. Looking forward to a move to 64-bit Windows Server 2008 I'm wondering what options there are ...
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Running KVM/XEN/Hyper-V VMs from a RAM disk, is this possible? Practical?

Currently I'm using ESX (v3 and v4) to test a scripted OS (Windows 2003) and application install DVD. The DVD ISO (8GB) is mounted on a 1Gbps NFS datastore and the VMDK's (20GB) are on an SSD mounted ...
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Create VM RAM disk at boot time in Windows XP

Using ImDisk for a 250MB RAM drive, with the TEMP environment variable, speeds up our Windows XP systems a lot - probably because the NTFS write-through latency when creating new files is avoided, or ...
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Lazy disk backup for a ramdisk on Linux?

Quick and dirty summary: I want something like a write cache that drains only when the system isn't busy. I want something along the lines of this question RAM disk and physical RAID with a slight ...
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RAM disk and physical RAID

I need to create a lot of temporary files for which I need to have fast access, so I'm thinking about using a RAM disk. The problem is that the temporary files might get pretty big (1-4 GB) and in ...
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Script errors when run by launchd at startup, but not when run in Terminal

I'm attempting to create a RAM disk that loads the previous contents when the system starts up, and every six hours writes the contents to a disk image. Currently, when you run the script from the ...
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Best use of a RAM disk?

Just wondering, have you ever made anything useful with a RAM disk in production? I wonder if the performance benefit they afford possibly outweighs their temporary nature in a specific circumstance. ...
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What is the use of /lib/init/rw in Debian?

I just installed Debian 5 (Lenny) and I noticed that /lib/init/rw is reported as a RAM Disk (tmpfs). I've only had experience with Fedora so I'm curious what function does that directory serve in ...
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Can you Utilize Server RAM for NAS Cache?

I have a 4 CPU 16GB RAM system with an Areca 1230 RAID card and 6 HDs in a RAID 0+1 configuration with 1 hot spare. System has 2 onboard 1Gpbs nics I want to turn the system into a NAS. It seems ...
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Rapid SSD vs. RAM in servers

Per GB prices of rapid SSD (like Intel X25-E) come close to prices of high-end RAM. So what extra advantages does SSD give you? What are particular reasons, why you buy SSD, instead of just putting ...

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