[mythtv-users] Revo 1600 FYI

[Brian Wood]

On Monday, November 22, 2010 08:45:24 am Doug Lytle wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> > Did you notice any sort of improvement?
> 
> Not that I've noticed.
> 
> I'm thinking of setting up a ram disk for the .mythtv directory
> though. Figured it may help with caching.  Some script that copies
> it to a holding folder and then copies it to the ram disk.

Thanks. I'm using an SSD already, so I don't think I'd gain much from 
using a RAM disk (though RAM is technically faster than an SSD, the 
overhead of emulating a disk probably cancels that out).

Linux is pretty good at using any available RAM for disk cache, so I'm 
not sure if a RAM disk would help you out or not.

Thanks for the info, it's good to know I can beef up the RAM should I 
decide to load more tasks onto the F/E.