Ramdisk

[jM2.me]

Okay so recently I bought minecraft. Loved it so I created a server.
There was a problem with lag, I assumed cause of network but didn't know for sure.

Then I created ramdisk. Server has 24GB of ram anyway so 4GB ramdisk wont hurt.

I know it allocates ram and uses it as a harddrive. But are there side effects to it?
Does it wear down ram?

I did bench tests and speeds are
But still have concerns about memory wear

[MentaL]

[themasher]

theres no memory wear its essentially doing what the ram usually does anyways but its not that good unless you have 8+gb ram to work with

[jM2.me]

I have 24GB lol

[Ytys Vynsan]

I wouldnt use a ramdisk for anything bar swap, because if you get a powerfailer all the date on the drive will be lost.

Which is ofcourse a problem;

Only way around it, is to set up a auto-backup system that backs up data on drive every 30-60secs depending on how important the data is on the drive.

Hope this helps;

Regards,
Vynsan

[Warmonger]

Dataram RAMDisk has a feature to automatically save the image file on a set period of seconds. As long as the ramdisk isn't of huge size it should be able to save quite frequently without causing a huge load. As for wearing down your memory, using a ramdisk i would imagine wouldn't have any adverse effect compared to normal use. It would be in comparison to using a solid state drive but having it that much closer to the memory controller (faster). Like stated before the only major issue would be a system hang/lockup or power failure may result in loss of data, but should only result in a couple of minutes rollback (since dataram backups prior image before saving the new one). If the game server uses SQL server as a backend for storing data then running that on your main logical drive would result in no rollbacks for player data. If you have the resources to do it, give it a go. But unless the files are high read/write driven you might not see any improvement rather then server load time.

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[jM2.me]

Okay so update on this. I installed the 4gb ramdisk on windows.
And of course benchmarks :D

Speeds are from 4k and up :O holy shit!

Anyway installed linux, created ram drive, added auto backup every 30 mins to ssd. and the backups from ssd to raid1 every 3 hours.

I must say on linux it's even faster than on windows

So thumbs up for ramdisk :D

P.S. Last time we had powerfailure was like a year or two ago, or even three. But it was county wide D: