Re: [Devil-linux-develop] commit mailing list lags - run from ram checked in

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 01:42 +0200, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> I've just checked in initial support for run from ram. As the commit mailing 
> list seems to lag quite a bit I just wanted to let you know.

I have a couple servers with a lot of RAM, so I turned on this option
when I upgraded them to 1.2.10.  Let me be the first to say THANK YOU!!!
It works great!  Programs not in memory run much faster (as expected),
and it also fixes one "problem" (*) that I sometimes run into.

(*)  When I have a CD based CD box that runs for a long time, the CDR
seems to build up a film on it, and eventually starts failing with a
read error.  Now I only have to worry about that when rebooting!

> I think I've tested every if statement in my code with QEMU (*) but you can 
> never be 100% sure. So if things break heavily during boot I might have my stake 
> in it ;-)
> 
> (*) My new devil build sytem is already a SuSE 10.1 XEN virtual machine so I 
> can't run VMWARE there and that's why I've changed to QEMU for simulation.

I'm also running SuSE 10.1, and this update allows the latest stable
version of VMware workstation to run fine:

http://mirror.vmmatrix.net/vmware-any-any-update/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz

 - BS