[Gllug] increase performance by increasing RAM or increasing in Core

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/16 Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>:
>>>
>> Also, don't just limit yourself to /tmp. There are all sorts of other
>> caches on a Linux box that you might not care about keeping over a
>> reboot, and which are thus also candidates for a tmpfs. For example,
>> Exim's retry and callout cache in /var/spool/exim4/db/.
>>
>
> Hell, why stop there?
> Just run everything in a RAMdisk - then you'll have nothing slowing you down!

Works like a charm.

I used to do something like  that with big read-only datasets for
Geophysical applications. This is what I had in mind when requesting
information about applications earlier in the thread, they dictate in
great measure what is best to be done to speed up things.
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