Hi, Is there a way to run wine in RAM only using tmpfs? kinda like a portable application running from a flash disk? I have a slow harddisk, and to alleviate the issue, I run Firefox Portable thru wine from RAM. However, I think wine running locally is causing slow downs when a few tabs are open etc. Thanks
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:51:47 -0600 "vajorie" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi, > Is there a way to run wine in RAM only using tmpfs? kinda like a portable application running from a flash disk? > I have a slow harddisk, and to alleviate the issue, I run Firefox Portable thru wine from RAM. However, I think wine running locally is causing slow downs when a few tabs are open etc. > ThanksThis is all from my very bad memory please take it with a hand full of salt. I think you could move your swap to your flash drive but the write times will be longer but with faster read time (I think). This whole thing is not covered by wine. This is not be the right place to ask for help for doing that. You know the is a linux version of firefox? :P
vajorie wrote:> Hi, > Is there a way to run wine in RAM only using tmpfs? kinda like a portable application running from a flash disk? > I have a slow harddisk, and to alleviate the issue, I run Firefox Portable thru wine from RAM. However, I think wine running locally is causing slow downs when a few tabs are open etc. > >You might want to look and see if there is a portable version of Wine. James McKenzie
The only version of firefox that I knew would call to libraries in my harddisk was the portable one. but of course, *that* is being invoked by wine, which is in my hard drive, so I'm stuck again :)) my pc doesn't use swap. but accessing files on disk (iowait?) takes long... so if I can take the wine+firefox group and put it on RAM, I'd be good to go. and where else would I ask how to get wine into RAM if not in the wine forums lol
IneedAname wrote:> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:21:40 -0600 > "vajorie" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > > The only version of firefox that I knew would call to libraries in my harddisk was the portable one. but of course, *that* is being invoked by wine, which is in my hard drive, so I'm stuck again :)) > > > > my pc doesn't use swap. but accessing files on disk (iowait?) takes long... so if I can take the wine+firefox group and put it on RAM, I'd be good to go. > > > > and where else would I ask how to get wine into RAM if not in the wine forums lol > > > > > Google is your friend. > > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-GB%3Aunofficial&hs=9U5&q=linux+ram+disk&btnG=Search&metaI'm using tmpfs (same logic - a directory in RAM). But I don't know how to throw everything that wine uses (and wine itself) into that directory... I guess this should have been the question of my first post, but I'm bad at asking clear questions :))) so, the clear question qould be, now, "I have created a tmpfs directory in my home directory. how do I throw wine and all its libraries and everything into that directory so that all wine uses is the files in that directory?" sorry about that.