Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:13:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing |
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Fred Reimer wrote:
>AFA /tmp is concerned, don't some OS's, like Solaris I believe, "mount" >/tmp as a memory filesystem? What would be the benefits/problems with >doing this in Linux (assuming that new memory filesystem that was just >announced get stable/is a good idea)?
It is called a ramdisk. I believe there is a howto. I can't see how in todays technology age that ANY ramdisk speeds up ANY system for ANY reason though. The memory is better used as cache, etc... Forcing it to ramdisk needlessly wastes the unused space IMHO.
I've yet to see anyone provide useful benchmark results that show benefits of running ramdisks.
TTYL
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