As I'm sure I'm not the only person who has thought of this, I figured the list could answer it for me without my borking my system. (Note: I'm not a Linux VM master, so this could be just a ridiculous question, as in, "You can do it, but your system will crash in 3 seconds.")
Namely, I wondered if anyone had tried using a tmpfs scratch directory. Many of the jobs I run in Molpro seem to not write very big files to my scratch directories. That is, when I look in them I see a few files of small or zero length. Of course, iostat shows Molpro just hammering the disks in some jobs, but I never seem to see any multi-GB files in the directory (a la GAMESS or Gaussian). Now, when I think fast I/O, I think tmpfs, so I wondered if I could do it with Molpro. So, has anyone out there tried this? -- Learning just means you were wrong and they were right. - Aram Matt Thompson -- http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~thompsma/ 440 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0440 JILA A510, 303-492-4662
