* Craig Ringer: > I'd be much more confident with something like those devices than I > would with an OS ramdisk plus startup/shutdown scripts to initialize it > from a file and write it out to a file. Wouldn't it be a pain if the UPS > didn't give the OS enough warning to write the RAM disk out before > losing power... The cache warm-up time can also be quite annoying. Of course, with flash-backed DRAM, this is a concern as long as you use the cheaper, slower variants for the backing storage. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
