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Offline mark1491

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keep video files in memory
« on: August 22, 2006, 09:58:40 AM »
I have a server which hosts videos with 4images that are no more than 6mb, and I only have 1 hard drive, and about 100 uniques all the time, my HD is causing the loads to be very high since it cannot read/write fast enough. I do not have the money to do raid and get another hard drive. Is there anyway to utilize my free ram, by keeping some of ther most heavily trafficed video files in memory all the time? I always have at least 400mb of free ram.  I know this might be more of a server question, but could someone point me in the right direction, or tell me that I am insane maybe for asking such a question?

Processor Name Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 3.06GHz
Processor Speed (MHz) 3068.285
Total Memory 1003280 kB
Free Memory 500156 kB
Total Swap Memory 3076428 kB
Free Swap Memory 3076284 kB
Apache 1.3.37 Running
DirectAdmin 1.27.4 Running
Exim 4.60 Running
MySQL 4.1.11 Running
Named 9.2.4 Running
ProFTPd 1.2.10 Running
sshd Running
vm-Pop3d 1.1.7f-DA-2 Running


Thanks in advance,
Mark

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Re: keep video files in memory
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2006, 03:00:46 PM »
You could try use lattest Apache 2, it has disk and memory cache modules which might help you...
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Re: keep video files in memory
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2006, 03:51:18 PM »
thanks V@no, ill try that