Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] kernel in ram partition.
From: Jeremiah Benham (jjbenham_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 23:51:18 EET
I bet that would be very useful when doing hard dirsk recording, software
sampling, and large soundfile editing. I use to use sound fourge when I used
windows. That program would be so much fast if the sound files were in ram
and not on a temp file on the hard drive.
Jeremiah
On Friday 02 November 2001 10:01 am, you wrote:
> > you might want to fiddle with ramdisks for libs and applications
>
> What sounded interesting to me was the idea of doing all your file
> access from a ramdisk which enabled the use of diskless workstations
> (and therefore silent boxes for recording or audiophile
> environments.) RAM is so cheap now, it's almost a joke.
>
> So the theoretical system might be:
>
> 1. diskless workstation with eg. 1 GHz processor (liquid cooled), 1GB
> RAM, Gigabit ethernet, multi-channel soundcard.
>
> 2. Conventional NFS server outside studio, also with gigabit ethernet
> or whatever.
>
> Anyone know of an example of this kind of system in use (other than
> the Transtec system for a stockbroker I already mentioned)?
>
> Any obvious pitfalls?
>
> Cheers
>
> Daniel
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