[lug] Re: RAM based files, file systems"

[Steve Sullivan]

Many thanks for all the great tips on ramdisk, ramfs, and tmpfs.
Here's one performance measurement ...

With hard disk, total time:  87.8 sec
With ramfs, total time:       0.035 sec

That's a speedup factor of 2500!

Cheers,

Steve

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