Re: [K12OSN] more RAMDRIVE = better performance??

[jam McQuil com]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Omar Jesus Olivos wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading lts.conf and it meantions RAMDRIVE. Will it be better if I change the size of the RAMDRIVE for my clients. My clients have 64 MB RAM. 
> The document says dedault is just 1 MB. Can I change it to 32 MB??? will it improve the performance?
> How can I change it?

No, it won't help at all.

THe ramdrive is simply used for the few small things that need to be 
written while the client boots.

You are much better off letting the Linux kernel manage the memory and
it will cache as much stuff as possible.

Jim McQuillan
jam Ltsp org