Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Maybe you're still getting disk accesses because of the update daemon? You >could try killing it to check. (of course, then you have to sync your disk >by hand). As far as I can tell, the update daemon in the more recent kernel

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Maybe you're still getting disk accesses because of the update daemon? You >could try killing it to check. (of course, then you have to sync your disk >by hand). As far as I can tell, the update daemon in the more recent kernel

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread bruce
If it's hitting your disk every minute, and you have virtual-dev, you probably haven't killed enough. Be sure to get the log daemon, I guess you got "cron" and "at". Don't run a name daemon, they do a traversal of their database once a minute that generally hits virtual memory. Maybe you don't have

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Thanks, it worked here but there was still lots of disk activity :< > > I went so far as killing everything but network services and going into a > text console and it still ran the disk about every min. Sitting > here normally in X without virtual-dev there is a disk io

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > I recall a post some time ago mentioning that putting /dev on a ramdisk > > would allow laptops to use APM. Does anyone know how this is done? I've > > never made a ramdisk with linux, and I'm not sure how to replace the /dev > >

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I recall a post some time ago mentioning that putting /dev on a ramdisk > would allow laptops to use APM. Does anyone know how this is done? I've > never made a ramdisk with linux, and I'm not sure how to replace the /dev > dir before anything starts using it... Check out

/dev on a ram disk

1997-12-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hi, I recall a post some time ago mentioning that putting /dev on a ramdisk would allow laptops to use APM. Does anyone know how this is done? I've never made a ramdisk with linux, and I'm not sure how to replace the /dev dir before anything starts using it... Thanks, Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F