On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:55:07PM -0500, Milenko wrote: > Hey all, > > Has anyone played with using a ramdrive to store the temp > tables in map.fcgi? There are 6 different temp tables used to store data > before it's dumped to the client. I wonder if there would be a significant > speed increase if these could be stored in RAM instead of on disk. The > script creates a "mirrored" tablespace before creating the temp tables, if > this tablespace where to point to a filesystem in RAM would that accomplish > this? I currently have it set to a separate directory on disk, but nothing > is ever created there so I'm not sure if it's actually being used to > anything.
I tried with a different tablespace on seperate speedy disks and it
didnt make a difference as the linux kernel is clever enough to
not let these short lived tables hit the disk
Flo
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