Top "Ramdisk" questions

A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage)

Write-through RAM disk, or massive caching of file system?

I have a program that is very heavily hitting the file system, reading and writing to a set of working …

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busybox in embedded linux shows "applet not found"

I compiled busybox myself,and I put it in our embedded linux. But I have some questions. Question 1:When I …

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How can I create a ramdisk in Python?

I want to create a ramdisk in Python. I want to be able to do this in a cross-platform way, …

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Does OS X have an equivalent to /dev/shm?

Does OS X (Snow Leopard in particular) have an equivalent to (some versions of) Linux's /dev/shm , ie something where …

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Is it possible to get persistent RAM disk with Imdisk?

I have moved my JDK, workspace and Tomcat server to a RAM disk which is created with the help of …

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MySQL Memory Engine vs InnoDB on RAMdisk

I'm writing a bit of software that needs to flatten data from a hierarchical type of format into tabular format. …

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Memory-Mapped Files vs. RAM Disk

For the game Minecraft, the general approach when running the server application is to run it in a RAMDisk, as …

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Why is the root filesystem is loaded into a ramdisk?

I am studying the boot process in Linux. I came across this sentence "RAM is several orders of magnitude faster …

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Can a java RAM disk be created to be used with the java.io.* API?

I'm using a 3rd party library which basically creates an output directory with different kinds of files and subdirectories inside. …

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RAMdisk slower than disk?

A python program I created is IO bounded. The majority of the time (over 90%) is spent in a single loop …

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