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RE: Mounting /tmp on ram disk



>> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> 
>> > Using a RAM disk as /tmp is really useless on Linuxand 
>> will actually 
>> > buy worse perfomance, not better.
>> 
>> That depends on the usage pattern. Consider this:
>> Playing two video files in a loop (1212...), one 3/4 size of physical
>> RAM, and the other 1/4. With the current VM, this means no 
>> caching. If
>> you put the large file in a ram disk, you have 75% of accesses from
>> memory. Huge win. 
>> 

 My server is used as NFS (for couple of clients) and Samba for few more,
both read only.
 It is a simple Pentium III with 128MB and normal IDE HD
 It has hundreds of files sized up 100k to 300k.
 Will it perform better if I will change the properties of the partition
to read-only ? Change the properties of the ext2 F.S. ?


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