Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-05 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Actually, if startup time is a real concern, you should write some custom Scheme code that reads input from a pipe or socket and writes the result. This will allow you to skip all startup preprocessing (reading init files , etc.) - not sure if this would work well on Windows though. On Mon, Jan

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2009-01-05 Thread Thomas Fehr
thanks to all! I am using windows xp and Java and a machine with enough memory. I found a Ramdisk (Gavotte). I have not yet tested the response times launching Lilypond from Java. I hope with some clever programming I will be less dependent on realtime issues. With a quick glance to ABC I think

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2009-01-05 Thread Thomas Fehr
thanks to all! I am using windows xp and Java and a machine with enough memory. I found a Ramdisk (Gavotte). I have not yet tested the response times launching Lilypond from Java. I hope with some clever programming I will be less dependent on realtime issues. With a quick glance to ABC I think

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 09:33 +0100, Thomas Fehr a écrit : > I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where > short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk > could help. Does anyone know how to do that? I'm not sure a ramdisk will increase

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 5. Januar 2009 00:23:06 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: > In message <49613875.9020...@gmail.com>, M Watts > writes > > >Whether you use ramdisks or not, you can increase harddisk performance > >by enabling the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab.

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread John Mandereau
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:23 +, Anthony W. Youngman a écrit : > WARNING! > > I think some things (notably source control) depend on atime so be > careful. I have used noatime for years without noticeable inconsistency with Git and CVS. Cheers, John

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <49613875.9020...@gmail.com>, M Watts writes Whether you use ramdisks or not, you can increase harddisk performance by enabling the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab. Whenever you read a file, you system also performs a writing operation, to store the time of last access. Disable thi

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Thomas Fehr wrote: Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas I mucked up part of my previous mail -- it should read: To do this a

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread M Watts
Thomas Fehr wrote: Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas Working on Lilypond files in a ramdisk (which is not exactly what you a

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:58:13AM +, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <4960746d.2040...@floetenbau.ch>, Thomas Fehr > writes >> Hi >> >> I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where >> short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk

Re: using Ramdisk

2009-01-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <4960746d.2040...@floetenbau.ch>, Thomas Fehr writes Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? Which OS. If you're running linux

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2009-01-04 Thread Thomas Fehr
Hi I'd like to use Lilypond in an interactive music learning program where short response times are needed. I think running Lilypond on a ramdisk could help. Does anyone know how to do that? - Thomas ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@g