>>>>> "Robb" == Robb Main <mainr@aci.on.ca> writes: Robb> My intention here is to figure out which system components Robb> should be maintained (compressed) in a RAM drive on the DC, and Robb> which should be maintained on the NFS mount. For instance, it Robb> is likely that shared libraries would be accessed constantly, Robb> and might be candidate for the RAM drive, whereas (in an Robb> embedded system, which might normally run a few scripts, then Robb> load an application) something like the shell (i.e., bash), Robb> might only be needed once during init, so it would be wasteful Robb> to maintain a copy (even compressed) in RAM. Maintaining Robb> "frequent use" components on the RAM drive would minimize impact Robb> on the network providing the NFS mount. You might be surprised. If you're not swapping, busy shared libraries are not read from disk very often at all. Opening a reference to an already open VM object does not require a disk transaction (save atime updates if enabled). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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