Would it work to write such temp files to a tmpfs
Would it work to write such temp files to a tmpfs
Posted Mar 11, 2014 18:23 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)In reply to: Would it work to write such temp files to a tmpfs by Wol
Parent article: A discussion between database and kernel developers
avoiding swap file fragementation requires the kernel either know ahead of time what's going to be swapped out in the future, or requiring that swap space be larger than virtual memory size so that there is a reserved spot for any page and it can be read in efficiently.
requiring a bunch of really fast disks to use swap when a medium speed disk doing a sequential write/read of the data will be just as fast is not a smart way to spend your money.