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 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
