Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've done a lot of database intensive activities this way and gotten
> speed increases of 10x by moving everything directly into RAM. That
> would mean a 3 hour job would take about 18 minutes. That is a lot
> better speed increase than you will get by using parallelization. 

'tis a good point.  Just dropping everything on a tmpfs (which your
distribution may have already helpfully mounted for you as /tmp) could
make a big difference.

Mike
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