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  • Another possibility is to create a brand new memory device. We can do this with the filesystem type: tmpfs. Let's say you want to create a tmpfs instance on /var/www/www.mysite.com/ramdrive that can allocate a max of 500MB RAM and that can only be changed by root, but accessed by everyone (like Apache):

     

    mkdir -p /var/www/www.mysite.com/ramdrive
    mount -t tmpfs -o size=500M,mode=0744 tmpfs /var/www/www.mysite.com/ramdrive
• 18 Oct 08
  

  Leonid Vygovskiy

  » Create turbocharged storage using tmpfs
  
  Everyone knows that RAM is so much faster than a hard disk. To illustrate, while a current SATA disk has peak transfer rates of 375 MB/s, current RAM can do a mind blowing 12,500 MB/s! Normally only the system it

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