Hello, I am using XMMS for playing my ogg/mp3 audio. The thing is that XMMS very often accesses my hard drive (approx. all three seconds). On my laptop this is not really wanted...
Thus my idea: why not creating a ramdisk, loading an album to it and playing from the mounted ramdisk (automatized with a perlscript). But the problem: I cannot get ramdrives (using e.g. /dev/ram0) greater than 4 megabyte. I found the "rsize" command which shows no effect. I heard that I can set the ramdisk size in /etc/lilo (I think that is why my limit is 4 megs, due to the LiLo settings...), but that would create a static-and-always present ramdisk, right? What I want is a dynamically settable ramdisk that could be sized to the overall filesize of my ogg/mp3 files, so that they can be loaded there. Having always, let's say, 80 megs wasted even when not using XMMS is not my goal ;-). Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I somewhere activated "tmpfs", is it that what I may use? Thanx for your help and best regards, Timo
