[ale] Desktop 32GB of RAM

[Chris Fowler]

I wished there was a way to mirror a ram disk to real disk. Not in real-time, but something that would backup the fs in ram to spindles and not interfere with performance. A minimum example would be a midnight rsync. 

> From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 8:42:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Desktop 32GB of RAM

> +1 on the ram disk! Great for readonly databases :-)

> Unless you're running HUGE graphic files through gimp or editing video, 32G is
> not going to get used.

> However, chrome will cache the entire interwebs and borg into the collective
> search engine so get 64G _MINIMUM_if you plan to (get) use(d by) chrome.
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