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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