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A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage)

A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer's software is treating as if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage)

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How add a folder with files inside AOSP root dir?

I'm trying to add a folder inside AOSP root directory using BOARD_ROOT_EXTRA_FOLDERS in Android.mk file, but when I flash it the folder or file isn't there. Also tried to use PRODUCT_COPY_FILES to insert folder (e.g. PRODUCT_COPY_FILES +=…
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ramdisk with a file mirror

I wanted to speed up compilation so i was thinking i could have my files be build on a ramdisk but also have it flushed to the filesystem automatically and use the filesystem if there is not enough ram. I may need something similar for an app i am…
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RAMdisk without previous installation with user privileges (portable mode) on windows

Is there a way to use some kind of RAMdisk without previous installation of RAMdisk software of any kind with user privileges on system windows (XP, Vista or 7 at least)?
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Can I use a RAM disk to speed up my IDE?

Duplicate: RAMDrive for compiling - is there such a thing? I have an idea how to speed up my IDE. I want to create a RAM disk and move my solution onto this virtual disk. I think that this can speed up the IDE because RAM is much faster than a…
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PostgreSQL on RamDisk: Size of work_mem etc.?

I am experimenting with running PostgreSQL on a ramdisk on windows. The way I did it was to simply place the data directory on the ramdisk. Without having done any specific benchmarks, the performance seems to be magnificent and only CPU bound. My…
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Running a Google Compute Engine VM instance entirely on a RAM disk

I'm trying to develop a data exploration environment for heavy processing of "Small Data" (10 - 30 GB). Reliability and stability are not concerns for these lightweight environments (that basically just contain Jupyter, Julia, Python, and R, plus…
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Making file wrap around when using fwrite

I am using an embedded system running linux.I use a ramdisk filesystem on the embedded target. My application captures real-time data and does Standard C "fwrite" to a file in this ramdisk fs.As there is limited amount of memory , I would like to…
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Time taken to read a file from HDD or OS buffer cache or RAM DISK is almost same

I have a java program which just reads a 12GB file Reader reader1 = new FileReader(filePath); try (BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(reader1)) { String line = bufferedReader.readLine(); while (line…
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How can i save file to flash in ramdisk filesystem?

I am new to file systems and i just want to ask, are there any methods to save my file to secondary memory using ram disk file system ?
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Android Studio on a RamDisk

Android Studio is a kinda slow. I was wondering if anyone has tried mounting Android Studio on a RamDisk. If yes, then what would be the optimal configuration to harness the best of a RamDisk with Android Studio mounted on it.
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Linux ramdisk memory allocation

My machine has a physical memory of 16 GB and I can create a ram disk of size 25 GB from this command sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=25G tmpfs /tmp/ram4 However as far as I have understood, ram disks write content to the ram. But in this case os…
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Bash: Chroot command passing 2 string parameters or better run a series of commands

I would like to do something like this: chroot /mount-point /path/to/script $var1 $var 2 Will this work? Will the chrooted Perl script be passed on these 2 parameters? If not, how to do this? Otherwise, is there any way to simply do chroot in the…
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RAMDISK data transfers in C (fread)

Right, so I'm trying to optimize a software that needs to read a huge image file (1.3 GB) in C/OpenCL in order to transfer it to the device by 40 MB blocks. I created a RAMDISK with tmpfs to store the file but when I analyze bitrates I find that…
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Visual Studio Code Analysis with ramdisk?

I used SoftPerfect RAM Disk recently to boost up my build time. It is awesome the normal build time has shrinked from 3 minutes to about 30 seconds for my whole solution, however I noticed that Code Analysis stopped working for me. I have pointed…
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IntelliJ IDEA compilation speedup in Linux

I'm working with IntelliJ IDEA on Linux and recently I've got 16 GB of RAM, so is there any ways to speed up my projects compilation using this memory?
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