[Bioclusters] Xserve G5 memory

[Michael Chute]

Here is a link that gives a couple of ways to make a ramdisk in OSX.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020530084607311

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> From: Al Tucker <act@comm.rockefeller.edu>
> Reply-To: <bioclusters@bioinformatics.org>
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:30:31 -0400
> To: <bioclusters@bioinformatics.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] Xserve G5 memory
> 
>> [I just finished composing this as Joe's post showed up]
>> Under most modern operating systems, BLAST databases automatically
>> get cached in memory by the OS as they are searched.  The operating
>> system typically uses all available memory (unused by currently
>> active applications) to cache frequently used data from files on
>> disk.
> <snip>
>> 
>> To the best of my knowledge, NCBI's blastall code uses memory-mapped
>> I/O whenever possible.
> 
> <snip>
>> 
>> A quick hack to ensure the DB stays in memory would be creating a
>> RAMdisk and copy the DB onto it.  I think OS X supports RAMdisks.(?)
> 
> I've been following this thread with interest.  I can contribute this
> - OS X doesn't have an inbuilt ramdisk option like Os 9 had, but
> there are 2 programs I know of (but have not used) that you can make
> a ramdisk with:  Disk Velox
> <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24364> and Ram
> Disk Creator <http://www.donelleschi.com/ramdiskcreator/>
> 
> 
> - Al
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