SUMMARY: Solaris RAMDISK ?

From: WC Jones <sx_at_insecurity.org>
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 20:05:50 EST
Hardware solution:
http://www.superssd.com/products_sub.htm

Software solution (Solaris 9 12/03 or better) see 
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-0690/6mgflntjs?q=ramdisk&a=view

or if not Solaris 9, maybe -
http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2000-December/000135.html

Thanks to:
Darren Dunham
Derek Olsen
and to Rich Teer who reminded me about:

"If RAM gets in short supply, the kernel will happily page out
stuff on the RAM disk to swap (unless the pages are locked in
memory).  Given enough RAM, something in a VM backed /tmp will
not be paged to disk, and hence will be equivelent to a RAM disk."


It is true that using a RAM DISK may NOT be the best solution or the best usage 
of real memory.  Your mileage may vary.

Thx/Bill
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