Really big ramdisk: a bad idea?

[Net Llama!]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> 
>>Before you go this route, are you sure that the bottleneck is memory?  If
>>you look at the output from free, is it all consumed?  What about in top,
>>how much of the memory is it using?
> 
> 
> It stands to reason.  The CPU is 90% free overall, so something is 
> blocking progress besides the CPU.  What could it be but disk access.
> The easiest way to avoid disk I/O is to not do any, by doing it in RAM.
> 
> Am I missing something?

No, not really, however the problem could be slow RAM or slow disk I/O.

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