On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:35:54PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 at 21:10, Pong wrote: > > hi, is anybody using tmpfs (or any fs using ram as disk) for their proxy > > server caches? wouldnt it better to buy lots of ram than lots of disk > > space right? any catch? > > tmpfs for /tmp and /var/tmp I can imagine, but for a proxy cache, WOW. > Talk about kicking ReiserFS's (or any other FS on a disk) butt! Hahaha. > But then I can think of one catch: you lose your cache on reboot. Other > than that if you've got enough to spare for an extra gigabyte of RAM, > that'd be a cool cache, although probably a little small (?).
As long as the disk doesn't crash, it's easy enough to write your cache to disk before shutdown then restore it on startup. I almost did that with an entire half-gig database a couple of years ago. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
