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kappax
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| jesterspet wrote: |  ::: thinking ::::
I wonder if XFree86 will run faster if I move it to my USB Drive or a ram drive 
I must look into what it would take to move XFree86 without breaking the entire thing. |
I dont think so, it might make X start faster, but i think after X is started it does not need much. but one thing i can think might help, if you have the ram, is moving your fonts to a ram drive ( each program scans your fonts on start ) if the fonts were located on ram you could get some speed maybe.
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Jimbow
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I've got both /tmp and /var/tmp mounted on tmpfs in my fstab. I am often suprised at how fast emerges are. I keep thinking that something borked because it gets done so quick.
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dreamer3
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| Jimbow wrote: | | I've got both /tmp and /var/tmp mounted on tmpfs in my fstab. I am often suprised at how fast emerges are. I keep thinking that something borked because it gets done so quick. |
I used to do this but big compiles ticked me off (Mozilla, etc) and started swapping and seemed to complete slower than just running from disk...
But for most smaller to medium emerges with plenty of RAM it is the coolest thing... |
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dave.fraser
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 9:58 pm Post subject: Using the video memory on an old video card |
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| I read a HOWTO a while back along these lines. It described how you could use XFree to setup an old video card, then mount the video ram as a ramdisk. It wouldn't be as fast as a regular ramdisk, because you'd be accessing it over PCI, but would otherwise have a similar effect without sacrificing main memory. Great if you have an old card lying around idle. I've been trying to find the link, but unsuccessfully. I'll post it if I find it. Has anyone else seen/done this? |
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nikai
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A small correction in the second ramit script:
When using a different mount point with RD, list_rammed() doesn't work, because /.rawspeed is still hardcoded.
This should work better:
| Code: | list_rammed()
{
RAMMED=`mount | grep $RD/ | awk '{print $3}'`
if [ -z "${RAMMED}" ]; then
echo "No directories mounted from the ramdisk";
else
mount | grep $RD/ | awk '{print $3}'
fi
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