Den Wednesday 04 March 2009 22.07.57 skrev alex stone: > I have a question about running linux in ram. > > > The Scenario. > > I'm researching building a dedicated Lsampler box, running headless, with > netjack doing the ins and outs. > > Given the usually large templates i run (full orchestra), including a lot > of articulations, i'm wondering how feasible it would be to build a > barebones Linux OS, with linuxsampler as the sole app, more or less, (and > required libs, etc...), and run the entire thing in ram, that is, the OS, > Lsampler, and samples. > > Is this possible, and if someone's already tried this in some form or other > successfully or otherwise, could you share some experiences, pros and cons, > etc... ? Hi Alex, We have a home brew at work that is a Liveubuntu with some extra mayonnaise. PXE-boot (net boot) of the kernel through a boot server (Ubuntu 8.04). All runs in memory. Everything you install (from the boot server) on desktop OS (Ubuntu) can be saved as a file with apt-get install set and reinstalls automatically when you boot next time. This makes us a hardware independent up to the point whats in our kenrel. I was not the designer of the system so I don't have the intricate details of it but if you're interested I could ask (not that hard. the designer is sitting 3 doors down) about them. I do remember a caveat about booting. The initrd can't hold more than xx amount of data and that made the designer do some trick to get around that. What I can about the system is that you'll need at least 2G of memory to run smoothly. /bengan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
