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He had a negative bluety on a quackhandle and was quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.
I look forward to your all knowing and likely sarcastic and unhelpful reply.
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Originally posted by sal View PostDidn't say SSD is fast enough to replace RAM, just that there is hardly any load that is worth placing on a RAM drive. The kind of load like data analysis is running in the RAM natively without the need for an artificial "disk" drive made of RAM.
If you place these files onto a RAM disk the optimisation is completed in minutes instead of days.
32GB RAM costs less than than a train ticket to London these days.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostSome applications read large files from disk, multiple times. One example is a trading platform that reads 20GB tick files during optimisation.
If you place these files onto a RAM disk the optimisation is completed in minutes instead of days.
32GB RAM costs less than than a train ticket to London these days.
I love it when CUK starts to talk infrastructure - always ripe for a giggle.
The OP needs and SSD - no more, no less. The VAST majority of other applications (Including enterprise) also need very little more - the correct RAID, the correct SAN config and perhaps some nice caching in front with the use of read/write caches. Very few need the design you're discussing, and as I said up there, to bring it up here seems completely irreverent.
It's also a ******* tulipe requirement, by the way.Last edited by vwdan; 13 January 2017, 14:31.Comment
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Originally posted by vwdan View Post...- the correct RAID...Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostBut, once again, this is a specific use case where the system architects would know and design accordingly.
I love it when CUK starts to talk infrastructure - always ripe for a giggle.
The OP needs and SSD - no more, no less. The VAST majority of other applications (Including enterprise) also need very little more - the correct RAID, the correct SAN config and perhaps some nice caching in front with the use of read/write caches. Very few need the design you're discussing, and as I said up there, to bring it up here seems completely irreverent.
It's also a ******* tulipe requirement, by the way.
Using a RAM disk you can speed this up 1000x times.
But hey, no one needs a RAM disk ever do they?Comment
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Using this product - RAMDisk for W2k / XP / Vista / Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012 / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10
Works well.
Languages with Garbage Collectors are pretty garbage at long term memory usage, where as using RAM disk allows to cache things and control space usage without any fragmentation of heaps. There are other uses as well.
P.S. Writing programs since the times when 640KB was enough for everybody...Last edited by AtW; 13 January 2017, 15:26.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostSome applications read large files from disk, multiple times. One example is a trading platform that reads 20GB tick files during optimisation.
If you place these files onto a RAM disk the optimisation is completed in minutes instead of days.
32GB RAM costs less than than a train ticket to London these days.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostUsing this product - RAMDisk for W2k / XP / Vista / Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012 / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10
Works well.
Languages with Garbage Collectors are pretty garbage at long term memory usage, where as using RAM disk allows to cache things and control space usage without any fragmentation of heaps. There are other uses as well.Comment
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Originally posted by sal View PostHere is a thought - why doesn't the said trading platform keep the files that it just read in the memory pages of the RAM natively? Why would it need to write them in a RAM disk "file system" during optimization? It makes no sense, you are just trying to make tulip up for the sake of argument...
It's like saying hey, why doesn't the software you are writing now read the whole database (500TB) into RAM now and speed it up?
IT full of ******* know it alls.Comment
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Originally posted by sal View PostJesus F Christ, the '90s are calling asking for their website back...Comment
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