RapidDisk
The Future of Linux RAM Disks

Petros Koutoupis

What is it?

It was designed to be used in high performing environments and has been designed with simplicity in mind.

Utilizing a user land binary, the system administrator is capable of dynamically adding new RAM based block devices of varying sizes, removing existing ones to even listing all existing RAM block devices and more.

What can it do?

Dynamically attach, detach and resize multiple rxdsk RAM disk nodes from just a few MBytes to even TBytes.
Read/Write to the volume at high speeds (20-30x faster ).
Archive and compress or decompress and restore rxdsk node data.
Using RapidCache, map an rxdsk volume to a physical drive as a caching node to increase I/O performance.
It is free!

if this interests you, then you should try

RapidDisk

It can take any computing
system and turn it into a high
performing machine.

operating at 1.5 GB/s to over 3 GB/s

not bad huh?

it only allocates memory pages as it needs them and not all at once

use it however you need it, as the only limit is your imagination

want to know more?

visit RapidDisk.org

one more thing...

there also exists a custom Linux distro called RapidDisk LX to export RapidDisk functionality as a target over an existing SAN