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From: Mike Ranque on 15 Mar 2010 15:28 Just been playing with SLAX, and my old 500Mhz AMD box ran quite well with it, considering it was loaded with KDE. The dualcore was like a light switch. Pop! Whatever I wanted was just there. Is there a practical way to get Slackware itself to load up into RAM like SLAX does? I like the speed, and can get more RAM if required. (2GiB ATM.) -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Michael Black on 15 Mar 2010 16:15 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Mike Ranque wrote: > > Just been playing with SLAX, and my old 500Mhz AMD box ran quite well > with it, considering it was loaded with KDE. The dualcore was like a > light switch. Pop! Whatever I wanted was just there. > > Is there a practical way to get Slackware itself to load up into RAM like > SLAX does? I like the speed, and can get more RAM if required. (2GiB ATM.) > Why? Most of Slackware you never use, a smaller percentage you use occaisonally, and then there are a few things you use all the time. The things that you commonly use will be cached in RAM, so they will "load instantly" when needed, but you won't have to load everything when booting. I'd much rather have a short delay when loading something that I actually need than a long boot loading things I'll never use. Michael > -- > *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ > *=( For all your UK news needs. >
From: Mike Ranque on 15 Mar 2010 21:10 Responding to Michael Black: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Mike Ranque wrote: > > >> Just been playing with SLAX, and my old 500Mhz AMD box ran quite well >> with it, considering it was loaded with KDE. The dualcore was like a >> light switch. Pop! Whatever I wanted was just there. >> >> Is there a practical way to get Slackware itself to load up into RAM >> like SLAX does? I like the speed, and can get more RAM if required. >> (2GiB ATM.) >> > Why? > > Most of Slackware you never use, a smaller percentage you use > occaisonally, and then there are a few things you use all the time. > > The things that you commonly use will be cached in RAM, so they will > "load instantly" when needed, but you won't have to load everything when > booting. > > I'd much rather have a short delay when loading something that I > actually need than a long boot loading things I'll never use. > Sounds good, but... I've been running SLAX on an old 500Mhz box, and apps performance is way ahead of the Slackware installation I tried on it. Proof, pudding, etc.? -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Mikhail Zotov on 16 Mar 2010 04:37 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Mike Ranque <not(a)steam.invalid> wrote: .... > Is there a practical way to get Slackware itself to load up into RAM > like SLAX does? Are you sure Slax loads itself completely into memory? I doubt it does since I have tried it on a box with only 256MB RAM and it worked. I think, all the apps packaged in Slax just won't fit into 256MB. You can build a live CD with Slackware using scripts available here: http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/ In this case, the system and all applications are really loaded into RAM. Another good thing with this approach as compared to Slax is that the system is not compressed thus you don't waste time when building an iso image and then don't waste time waiting for the system to decompress during boot up. HTH, Mikhail
From: Mike Ranque on 16 Mar 2010 08:55
Responding to Mikhail Zotov: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:28:46 +0000 (UTC) Mike Ranque <not(a)steam.invalid> > wrote: ... >> Is there a practical way to get Slackware itself to load up into RAM >> like SLAX does? > > Are you sure Slax loads itself completely into memory? I doubt it does > since I have tried it on a box with only 256MB RAM and it worked. I > think, all the apps packaged in Slax just won't fit into 256MB. > > You can build a live CD with Slackware using scripts available here: > http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/ > > In this case, the system and all applications are really loaded into > RAM. Another good thing with this approach as compared to Slax is that > the system is not compressed thus you don't waste time when building an > iso image and then don't waste time waiting for the system to decompress > during boot up. > > HTH, > Mikhail Ooh! Tasty! Cheers! -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs. |