From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 04:24:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 005D473D for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 04:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sender1.zohomail.com (sender1.zohomail.com [74.201.84.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFB79B5D for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 04:24:55 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=zapps768; d=zoho.com; h=message-id:subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type:mime-version; b=H3bAqIzvT+SmLK9KpddqYuUFGPUuMekQAiUELlZ//fEje0ch3ur+rD3DsvGQ6MQW7yOJ40tf/Br9 +IFJAmAid6pUZPxjgl2fXwQHXu4vRFbIpGRd7qmb1r+i1nvtO1Qj Received: from eva02 (46.229.54.117 [46.229.54.117]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1417753491868340.38266627074984; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 20:24:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1417753488.2773.1.camel@zoho.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. From: clutton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:24:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <54812A0A.6080105@yahoo.com> References: <1417734458.1772.1.camel@zoho.com> <20141205014616.da37661a.freebsd@edvax.de> <54812A0A.6080105@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZohoMail: Ss SS_10 UW UB ZCF-710TPL UW UB SF_TD_EXT SGR3_1_27114_626 X-ZohoMail-Owner: <1417753488.2773.1.camel@zoho.com>+zmo_0_ X-ZohoMail-Sender: 46.229.54.117 X-Zoho-Virus-Status: 2 X-ZohoMailClient: External X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 04:24:56 -0000 I'm going to try. Will post the results here. First I'll try on one of my relatively fast machines. The world is already compiling. :) Then if everything is ok on my notebook with 8G RAM. On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 22:44 -0500, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: > Hi, > > I would be interested in this as well. If no one has done it lately, > I'd like to work with some people and get this going as well. > > I'm sure PXEboot, NFSv4, with a KDE Desktop would be fairly useful with > about 8GB of RAM and a Gb network. > > P. > > On 12/04/2014 19:46, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:07:38 +0200, clutton wrote: > >> Is anyone use a FreeBSD as a Desktop working from RAM, using MFSROOT? > > Many live systems work that way. For FreeBSD, check out > > FreeSBIE (sadly discontinued, but probably still available > > for download; NB: FreeBSD 5 and 6). Programs are loaded > > from CD (slow), but once they are "buffered" in RAM, things > > work fine. It would be interesting to see of this > > bottleneck could be removed by pre-loading as much into > > RAM as possible, and of course avoiding optical media > > as load media (instead, using a SSD or at least USB to > > boot). > > > > > > > >> As a memory is relatively cheep it can be even faster then ssd. > > Then check this out: > > > > http://www.sandisk.com.br/enterprise/ulltradimm-ssd/ > > > > Best of both worlds, and it could make the past come > > back (cf. AS/400 single-level storage). :-) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"