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Special Forums Hardware SAS or SSD for Ubuntu 14.04 and data analysis Post 302966478 by jim mcnamara on Friday 12th of February 2016 10:58:34 AM

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SSD is more than an order of magnitude (or much) faster than SAS high-rpm disks.
SSD is limited - usually to 1-2 TB of storage. With 128GB of memory, you could easily use SSD disks to load whatever file you want into memory - e.g., usual term is a RAMDISK. Ubuntu supports this. It also caches files very effectively without much human intervention other than configuration.

Learn about pdflush: The Linux Page Cache and pdflush

There is also vmtouch. You can force any file to be read entirely into memory. Which would definitely favor SSD.

https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/ Also note some other tools on that site.

So, I would suggest: SSD's and vmtouch (or an analagous tool.)

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url

URL(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    URL(4)

NAME

     url -- Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet driver

SYNOPSIS

     url*    at uhub?
     urlphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION

     The url driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Realtek RTL8150L USB-ether bridge chip.

     The url driver supports the following adapters:

	   CompUSA USBKR100
	   GreenHouse GH-USB100B
	   Melco Inc. LUA-KTX
	   Sitecom LN013

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

DIAGNOSTICS

     url%d: watchdog timeout  A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the
     transmission before a timeout expired.

     url%d: no memory for rx list  The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), mii(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The url device driver first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.

AUTHORS

     The url driver was written by Shingo WATANABE <nabe@nabechan.org>.

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