Re: question about running program from a RAM disk

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 18:48:26 EST


Followup to: <01bc01c1c0a6$a3c315e0$bb3147ab@amer.cisco.com>
By author: "Hua Zhong" <hzhong@cisco.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In the final system we are going to turn off swap. I had dreamed that Linux
> could directly use the page frame on the RAM disk instead of doing another
> copy :-)
>

However, the reply you got was completely irrelevant; he didn't answer
your question at all (even though he probably thought.)

The answer to your question is that a ramdisk lives directly in the
block cache and does not have to be copied.

You may want to consider migrating to a ramfs or tmpfs, which lives
directly in the *page* cache and therefore reduces overhead further.

        -hpa

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