On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, randyboy wrote:
> I'm looking into the prospects of running a MySQL db out a RAM disk. I
> guess the simplest way of doing that would be to copy the db files into
> memory and starting MySQL using the files in memory. However, I run into
> problems with having to update both the db files in memory and the db
> files on disk while the system is running. I suppose that also requires
This sounds as though you are wanting to run the database from the ram
disk purely for performance reasons. If so, it is unlikely to gain you
much, apart from the complexity of synchronising the data. Increasing the
amount of buffer/cache space would probably achieve what you want with
fewer drawbacks.
Alistair
