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Unleashing Accelerated Speeds with RAM Drives

Playing with Blocks free

Enable and share performant block devices across a network of compute nodes with the RapidDisk kernel RAM drive module.
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Rebuilding the Linux ramdisk

A New Beginning free

If your Linux system is failing to boot, the dracut tool can be a convenient way to build a new ramdisk.
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Figure 1: In LR-DIMMs, all of the signal lines (including the data) run through an intermediate chip; this reduces the electrical load on the memory controller.

RAM Revealed

Virtualized systems are inflationary when it comes to RAM requirements. Storage access is faster when excess RAM is used as a page cache, and having enough RAM helps avoid the dreaded performance killer, swapping. We take a look at the current crop of RAM.

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