I think you are referring to the Memory files in Information. We experimented with them, briefly, and them returned to using good old disk files.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0100 > Subject: RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching > > It's probably AIX that's doing the caching. If it's like linux, there's no way to tell it - it will just aggressively cache everything until it runs out of spare RAM. > > Question is, why do you want these files in RAM? UV is very fast at retrieving from disk so what's the reason? > > And it sounds like you want a file-type that INFORMATION had - I can't remember what filetype it was because I only ever used it once, but it was pinned in memory and read-only - intended iirc for very fast lookups. I would be very surprised if UV has what you want, because they would have copied this file type, and they haven't. They probably didn't see any need for it. > > Cheers, > Wol > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louie Bergsagel > Sent: 23 October 2008 00:31 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching > > I've heard that UniVerse will cache data, or leave data in memory in case > the next request needs it. > Is there any way to control how much data gets kept in memory, and for how > long? > > If one has 32 gigabytes of memory on an AIX machine, is there any way to > tell the operating system (or UniVerse) to load whole (several) files in > memory so the data can be accessed instantaneously, or is configuring some > memory as a ramdisk the closest one can get to that? > > -- Louie in Seattle > > AIX 5.2 > UniVerse release 10.2.7 > UniVerse syntax: PICK > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ _________________________________________________________________ Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_ 102008 ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
