> Just wonderin. What if you symlink WAL to a directory which is on > mounted USB RAM drive?
USB 2.0 you mean? It supposedly runs at 1394 speeds, but USB 1.0/1.1 runs at 1MB/s under ideal circumstances... that's slower than even old IDE drives. > Will that increase any throughput? Probably not... > I am sure a 256/512MB flash drive will cost lot less than a SCSI > disk. May be even a GB on flash drive would do.. That's true... but on a per $$/MB, you're better off investing in RAM and increasing your effective_cache_size. If dd to a flash card is faster than to an IDE drive, please let me know. :) -sc -- Sean Chittenden UNIX(TM), a BSD like Operating System ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])