[nycbug-talk] Memory sizing

[Marc Spitzer]

On 4/22/06, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> as an aside, i have another postgres DB that we are running out of a
> memory FS.  it's execellent, although took a bit of work on our end to
> architect a solution that would work this way.  the database in the memfs
> partition does not persist between reboot's - it populates itself off
> an oracle server (and through some other methods) between reboots.  it
> has been very successfull performance wise, although granted such a
> solution may not fit everyone's environment.

what kind of speedup did you see vs a normal(disk based) database?

marc

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