Re: How cache into RAM memory rather than on disk?

On Thu, 18 May 2000 alowe@hislora.com.au wrote:

> if you make a script that copies your ramdisk fs to a real fs, mirroring
> it constantly - or every 1/2 hour, and on startup, re-builds the ramdisk
> from the mirror before starting squid, that would work? you would have to
> do the cache log files as well, otherwise they might be 1/2 and hour out..
> if you are only backing up every 1/2 hour...

Of course a real :-) system would allow you to build a mirror out of a
real disk and ram disk. Writes would be not a lot slower than to a real
disk and reads, always from the mfs half of the mirror, would be
somewhat faster (I would hope).

Colin
Received on Thu May 18 2000 - 01:03:32 MDT