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

i was thinking that you would want the system to run as fast as possible,
so not make a real mirror... more just backing up the ramdisk... so maybe
every night, when traffic is slow you would want to do this, of course if
you were not too concerned about speed, you would probably not want to use
more RAM for cacheing?

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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Colin Campbell wrote:

> 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 - 01:05:48 MDT