Re: Ramdrive vs disk cache for temporary files

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From: Allen Kistler
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 03:46

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In article <1992Nov13.180117.20097@tamsun.tamu.edu>
 tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:
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>Some compilers, linkers, and editors create intermediate files
>which gets deleted at the end of the job.
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>Of a ramdrive or a disk cache, which one is more suitable for
>such temporary files?

Ramdrive.  Sure, with the right disk, the cache will be just as fast, but
if you do a lot of compiling (or whatever creates temp files) many temp files
created many times could end up fragmenting your disk.

>How about caching a ram-drive? Does it make sense?

I'd say it's about as sensible as using virtual memory to cache a real disk.

Allen Kistler
ack@space.physics.uiowa.edu

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