On 1/9/06, Kelly Burkhart <kelly.burkhart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/8/06, Ron <rjpeace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <snip> > > Among the other tricks having lots of RAM allows: > > If some of your tables are Read Only or VERY rarely written to, you > > can preload them at boot time and make them RAM resident using the > > /etc/tmpfs trick. > > What is the /etc/tmpfs trick? I think he means you can create a directory that mounts and area of RAM. If you put the tables on it then it will be very fast. I would not recommend it for anything you cannot afford to loose. I have also tried it and found that it did not produce as good as performance as I expected. -- Harry http://www.hjackson.org http://www.uklug.co.uk
