Thanks Gentlemen, lots of food for thought in your suggestions and questions.<br><br><br><br>I'm definitely interested in building a 'vanilla' OS, stripped down to be as lean as possible.<br><br>The swapoff command i didn't know about, so i'll have a look at that. That may well be sufficient, but i'll test it, and see what happens.<br>
<br>Joel, i don't have problems with the regular setup, i'm just aiming for the leanest, most efficient, stable setup i can get. You may well be right, that what i have is close to ok now, and could just benefit from a tweak or two here and there.<br>
<br>Julien, i've taken notes from your ideas. I like the idea of a text only based OS for LS, as i use this now for opening regular templates. Makes sense to me getting rid of cpu munching possibilities of a gui, and just work at the most efficient interface possible.<br>
<br>James, i'd need to go through the processes i don't need, but having disks as read only makes sense to me. I've already got two dedicated sample disks that i keep scrupulously clean that are pretty well read only in my natural workflow, so the 'habit' is already embedded.<br>
<br>Again, thanks fellas. This sort of info is highly useful for me, and possibly others.<br><br>Alex.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Joel Roth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joelz@pobox.com">joelz@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:07:57AM +0300, alex stone wrote:<br>
> I have a question about running linux in ram.<br>
><br>
><br>
> The Scenario.<br>
><br>
> I'm researching building a dedicated Lsampler box, running headless, with<br>
> netjack doing the ins and outs.<br>
><br>
> Given the usually large templates i run (full orchestra), including a lot of<br>
> articulations, i'm wondering how feasible it would be to build a barebones<br>
> Linux OS, with linuxsampler as the sole app, more or less, (and required<br>
> libs, etc...), and run the entire thing in ram, that is, the OS, Lsampler,<br>
> and samples.<br>
><br>
> Is this possible, and if someone's already tried this in some form or other<br>
> successfully or otherwise, could you share some experiences, pros and cons,<br>
> etc... ?<br>
><br>
> I would be doing all this in Linux 64bit, if it has some decent advantages.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Are you running into problems with a conventional setup?<br>
<br>
Generally Linux pages whatever you need into RAM, and<br>
anything that isn't used much gets swapped out. So without<br>
doing anything, you might already be close to a<br>
configuration that will work for you.<br>
<br>
The leads me to suggest doing the job the vanilla way, then<br>
adding optimizations incrementally to improve performance<br>
to what you need.<br>
<br>
I don't think that going headless, in itself, will give<br>
you any benefits as far as your system's memory use.<br>
<br>
AFAIK, you don't need to strip down your environment, as<br>
having all the development tools and coveniences on disk<br>
won't affect your memory consumption.<br>
<br>
Joel<br>
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