Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:09:09 -0400 From: Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? Message-ID: <46B0E865.6060800@vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <46AF827C.2040409@gmail.com> References: <46AF827C.2040409@gmail.com>
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Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
> Is TMPFS available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?
> Or do i have to settle for mfs?
>
> [venting frustration]
> The reason i ask is i need something very flexible when it comes to
> memory usage as a poor-mans shared-memory feature for a closed source
> data conversion app, used only occasionally but with *alot* of data
> passing through. By alot i mean it took our quad core xeon 3 ghz with 4
> gbyte memory and 4 SAS drives in 1+0 RAID, about a day and a half to
> process (on disk).
> Simple tests (by others) using netbsd on a single cpu 3 ghz and tmpfs,
> it took roughly 70 minutes. Most of which was spent loading and
> unloading the data over the network.
> I'd really like that memory back after use for other things as this
> server is also serving databases with files etc.
>
>
I love FreeBSD enough to have run my personal webserver on
FreeBSD-Sparc64 but I don't understand here. If NetBSD does the work in
70 minutes why not do it on NetBSD?
-- Chris
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