From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Bastiaan Naber <naber@inl.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:25:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507210925.46283.vda@ilport.com.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507201416.36155.naber@inl.nl>
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 15:16, Bastiaan Naber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if I can ask this here but I could not find any other place
> where I could fine anyone with this knowledge.
>
> I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do
> this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time.
>
> I want to know if this is possible before spending 10,000 euros on a machine
> that has 16 GB of memory.
Make large swap file and test it yourself. Not a problem.
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-21 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-20 12:16 Bastiaan Naber
2005-07-20 13:20 ` Erik Mouw
2005-07-20 13:31 ` Antonio Vargas
2005-07-20 13:35 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2005-07-20 14:44 ` Erik Mouw
2005-07-20 15:23 ` Antonio Vargas
2005-07-21 2:13 ` Jim Nance
2005-07-20 15:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-21 6:25 ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2005-07-21 8:42 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-21 9:12 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-07-21 9:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-22 10:36 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-22 11:00 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-07-22 16:25 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-22 21:10 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-07-21 15:25 Andrew Burgess
2005-07-22 9:39 Cabaniols, Sebastien
2005-07-22 10:38 linux
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