A quick and easy performance improvement

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Julian Field wrote:
>
> a) Make sure you use tmpfs, not a traditional fixed-size ramdisk.
> b) It doesn't matter about good hardware or good power. Nothing will 
> be lost if it gets killed due to sudden reboots or power-cycling. I 
> made sure of that a very long time ago.
You're right. I meant tmpfs. And I also make sure the machine I'm doing 
the ramdisk on has enough RAM to spare, otherwise it could... CAUSE 
SWAPPING! ;-)