On 27/02/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can create a RAM disk, and copy files over to it. But it tends to work out better to use the memory for buffers and disk cache instead when you are using a reasonably fast hard drive. (Optical drives are another story - they are MUCH slower.) The thing to remember is that most CP/M systems were run from floppy disks. They also had to do a lot of swapping in and out because the processors could only directly address 64K of RAM. CP/M+ could swap pages in and out if your hardware supported it, but you were still limited to 64K mapped in at one time. If you want a system that boots up fast, you have the option of suspend to RAM or suspend to disk. There are advantages and disadvantages to both, but if they work on your system, they can get you to a working desktop in a short time. Mikkel
I'm not looking for fast boot times, rather for snappy system performance. Slax in RAM is _f_a_s_t_. I really could not believe how fast the system was. Give it a shot if you're not familiar with it. Open Office loads in about a second, slowed only by it's splash screen. Firefox comes up instantly. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/website.html http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/129/108/carey_mariah/butterfly.html
