Hi, I am curious, is there really that big of a benefit to using a ramdisk this way? If you have enough memory for your keycache and buffers and don't have to use tmp space for any queries? Add the query cache in 4 to that and I wonder what is left to ramdisk?
Thanks, Eric At 10:51 AM 1/28/2004, Seth Brundle wrote: >After some research, I chose a dual Opteron MySQL server for my new search box. For >storage, I only update the tables once a day, so I plan on putting my data directory >on a Linux ramdrive and backing it up to the hard disk after each update for maximum >performance. > >If anyone has any reccommendations for dual-opteron 64-bit Linux distributions or any >experience or tips on running MySQL on a ramdrive I'd like to hear them. > >Thanks >Seth -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
