Operating Systems in Memory (I Wonder...)

[Michael Cohen]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:48:42AM +1000, David Ash wrote:
> But sounds like you want quick access from the first read, in which case 
> you may want to consider "solid state disks", or those pci cards with 
> ram sticks which act as a disk.  I haven't used either though.  Solid 
> state disks aren't good for lots of writes etc.

Note that the readahead daemon does just that - populate the page cache with a
whole lot of configured files. This is used to speedup boot time or gnome
desktop logins etc.

apt-get install readahead

Michael.