Ridiculous idea: Cache as ramdisk?
    Justin C. Sherrill 
    justin at shiningsilence.com
       
    Tue Sep 23 06:44:55 PDT 2003
    
    
  
J. Kanowitz wrote:
> I'm thinking of wherever writes get buffered before a softupdates
> commit.  Obviously it'd suck to run completely OOM for careless use
> of the 'RAM disk,' MFS does a good job anyway, and I barely know what
> I'm talking about...  But maybe the perspective can be good inspiration
> for someone even if the idea itself might belong in the dustbin.
I recall seeing a nice writeup somewhere, where someone described how to set
up a ramdisk for /usr/obj, and therefore speeding the make buildworld
process way, way up.  
Here's a link, though I don't think it's the same one I recall reading.
http://bsdvault.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=53
    
    
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