>build machine with like 64 or 128 GB of RAM >do not install an HDD or SSD >connect to a UPS so power never gets interrupted >install Linux or MacOS onto a RAM-disk (or just use a livecd) >bask in glory of blazingly fast system
With the entire OS installed sitting in RAM, everything would be blazingly fast. And I'd never have to reboot because Linux and MacOS never need to do so.
And if 64 GB or 128 GB is not enough, you can always hook up an external hard drive anyway.
Has anyone done this before?
Dominic Clark
>OS X never needs to reboot
Leo Rodriguez
That's only if you're on the El Capitain beta. I use the stable release.
Leo Myers
>I use the stable release. then you clearly haven't updated past 10.11.0
Owen Edwards
Still need to reboot for updates and through out the installation process
Easton James
Modern operating systems already cache as much as possible in unused RAM. You'd get some gains but it wouldn't be much. Look up Windows superfetch.
Leo Lopez
Would SuperFetch help if the entire OS was in RAM?
Elijah Garcia
I should try this when i get a workstation.
Brayden Sanders
But who was RAM?
Jackson Nguyen
What would you install programs and save files to?
Jack Evans
RAM was pic related.
Next question.
Charles Jenkins
The RAMdisk. And the software accessing that virtual "disk" wouldn't be able to tell it apart from a standard hard-disk.
Levi Bennett
You are retarded Go home
Lucas Collins
I am at home. Where did you think I was?
Austin Martin
You could just make an image of the ramdisk onto an HDD and load that into RAM after you reboot if you ever need to do so though.
Josiah Peterson
Its an alright idea, but you need to have ecc ram, otherwise you're going to have issues after even a couple days.
At the lab in my uni, they have a bunch of linux machines that have fde. Most people don't know the encryption pw so people don't reboot the machines that often. Some of the machines that have been up for a while barely even function anymore.
Isaac Bailey
>full disk encryption >just leave them running very sane security policy
Owen Bell
there would be a point where you'd need to reboot eventually.
Carter Rodriguez
The kernel and userland is probably written in Erlang. That sweet, sweet live-patching.
Logan Johnson
A pleb cave.
Oliver Bell
I know right. It seems to actually be a state policy though, no one around here seems to really care that much.
Henry Morris
This is elite hardcore computing right here. Lose all of your files if you fuck up the system and have to restart.
Nolan Martinez
Just use an SSD
Dylan Barnes
You'd probably have long term storage backup automatically onto magnetic storage when your computer isn't doing anything.
Grayson Jones
So I'm basically making a better version of Suicide Linux?
Matthew Peterson
An SSD gets irredeemably rekt by even a DDR2 RAM disk, fuck that.
Isaiah Scott
How would this work when actually installing an OS that has to reboot during installation? Or is there some special way to keep data in a ramdisk during a reboot. Would be interesting nevertheless.
Eli Reyes
just use a PCIe SSD like a normal person/
Ryan Walker
Or maybe just have a disk the same size as the RAM, and dump the contents of the RAM to it when you turn it off. Maybe have a battery in the computer to do this in the event of a powercut. This way, you can actually turn the computer off if you want to. Even if you don't want to, you won't have to use a UPS.
Jose Lee
Nah, PCIe SSDs don't get up to 34GB/s. Also, they overheat and have a very limited number of writes.
