Re: [PERFORM] Mount database on RAM disk?

2005-07-09 Thread Christopher Browne
> On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:21, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> ditto windows. >> >> Files cached in memory are slower than reading straight from memory >> but not nearly enough to justify reserving memory for your use. In >> other words, your O/S is a machine with years and years of >> engineering designed b

Re: [PERFORM] Mount database on RAM disk?

2005-07-09 Thread Alex Stapleton
On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:21, Merlin Moncure wrote: Stuart, I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our load increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast read only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough RAM to fit everythin