[ale] redhat 9 ramdrive performance problem

[Brian Chase]

I don't know what Redhat 9 you're using, but my guess is what you're 
talkin about is "swap".  Swap partition is configured at install and 
should be transparent after that.

Armsby John-G16665 wrote:

> All,
>  
> We are setting up an HP ProLiant DL360 server, 1 Gig of ram, mirrored 
> disks as our Engineering data server.  We had initial problems with 
> the machine "seeing" the CDROM, but now all is well.  My current 
> glitch is with the performance of using a RAMDISK.
>  
> I have successfully set up a ramdrive with 500 meg of space, 
> initialized it, and placed the files I need to regularly access.  I 
> have changed the CGI code to look to that directory (/mnt/ramdrive) to 
> access the files.  I am dismayed to find that the performance is 
> actually less than simply using normal disk access. 
>  
> Previously I have set up an identical configuration on a Dell GX 270, 
> 1 Gig of ram, and noticed a 2X increase in performance.  I measure 
> performance by having the cgi script simply calculate the number of 
> seconds it is running.  Both machines are running redhat 9, both 
> machines are running the identical compiled cgi script.  Index files 
> are identical.
>  
> What am I missing here?
>  
>  
> John
>  
>
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