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Posted: Sep. 20 2005,16:57 QUOTE
I believe that the ramdisk size is determined by a calculation that is done in the init process that is based on total PC RAM capacity.
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Posted: Sep. 20 2005,17:20 QUOTE
You already have most of your ram being used in the ramdisk...if you increase the size too much you'll be using nothing but swap for running applications, which will slow things down tremendously.

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Posted: Sep. 20 2005,18:29 QUOTE
Hi mikshaw,

you are right, it would not help me too much...
Would it make sense to put some of the directories inside the ramdisk on the hd? Like /var/cache/apr/archives which fills up everything as soon as I want to apt-get something?
How can I move these files in a way which is recovered after reboot?

A very excellent thing would be a program like mydsl-unload... this would help to clean the ramdisk...

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