jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Mar 17 18:53:54 CDT 2008
Yes, but then you bump into the network speed issue. A local ram drive has insanely fast read speeds (2.2 gigaBYTES / second in local testing). I have been using a hardware RAM disk but the specific software trying to access that is not reliably co-operating. Strange things happen. OTOH using a 700 mb ran drive has bumped address validation rates from an absolute maximum ever seen of 5 million records / second (with the hardware ram drive) up to well over 8 million records / second. I was hoping to use a shared ram drive just to save memory but by making the VM big enough to contain a 700 mb ram drive I can do it entirely inside of the vm with only a slight drop in speed. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:35 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VMWare - Sharing a ramdrive on the host system I would think that if the RAM drive has a drive letter that you could just treat it as a shared folder and use it like a regular shared drive. Have not tried it with a RAM drive though. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:23 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VMWare - Sharing a ramdrive on the host system The simply answer to that is. yes. The maximum amount of memory is less than the amount for the VM... of course. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:30 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] VMWare - Sharing a ramdrive on the host system I am looking at running a VM where the software needs access to a ram drive on the host machine. Is this possible and how do I do it? John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com