Installing a NF Server into a RAMdisk / RAMdrive ?

[camer0N]

Hi,

has someone already tried installing a nightfire server into a ramdisk / ramdrive?

If you have much RAM in your machine, like 4 GB or more, you could use a part of it (maybe 2GB) of the RAM as a virtual harddrive by installing a special device driver (see www.ramdisk.com / www.superspeed.com / and more).

After configuring the new device you will have a new drive letter in your explorer with 2GB space on it.

The cool thing hereby is.... this virtual harddrive is super, super fast in reading and writing from / onto it. (They say up to sixty times faster than a normal harddrive!!!)

I think i read somewehere here in the forum, that its not only the speed of the CPU and the speed and amount of RAM, but also the speed of the harddrives, that influences the server's performance.

So if that is true, the above method could have a positive effect for the server.

I think will try it by myself one time, but as i found out that I have only one GB RAM in my server (i thought it where two) and money and time is rare at the moment, this can take a while.

Do you guys think this idea could be worth a try or is it just "the unusefull topic of the day" ?

Cheers

camer0N

[Sliphead]

As far as I know the internet connection (upload speed) affects a server the most.

I don't know whether ramdisk will have that good influences on our hosting experiences, but you could always test it out ;-)
Not all people have that much RAM

Sliphead

[Tras]

Problem of RAM Disks are that they get deleted when you restart your pc, so watch out. If it has a saving function after shutting down, it will take its time to write 2 gb of disk :p.

Anyways NF does not use extense HDD reading, except when it's starting and changing map, so I guess it's not worth the change

[UltimateSniper]

NF does not use extense HDD reading, except when it's starting and changing map

isnt that wat this guy was originally wanting?

yeh... i agree with tres up to the last part of his post

apparantly it is more useful for servers than clients to have RAM drives as the servers do the most working i suppose

[camer0N]

Thank you for the feedback :)

It was just an idea i had, but as it seems, it won't have much effect.

Loading the whole operating system into such a ramdrive would be cool...

camer0N

[UltimateSniper]

lol yeh.... what are DVD-RAM disks for? u could maybe install NF on 1?

[camer0N]

Oh, then i think it would be smarter to buy 256 floppy disk drives and make a RAID 0 stripeset out of them ... imagine the noise... (just kidding)

But i had another idea:

Does it have an influence on the server's performance when changing the priority of the bond.exe and the server software from "normal" to "high" or even to "realtime" via the taskmanager (open taskmanager, select processes tab, right-click on bond.exe, set priority to high) ?

camer0N

[UltimateSniper]

it does if the server already has other things which are taking up the processing power... if not then it is really of little use however, just for good measure, i do it for my NFBL servers before going AFK

using a RAM drive for NF servers may not be such a bad idea but just be prepared for anything that could happen if you're gona do it