Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

Denis Vlasenko
2005-07-21T06:26:50Z

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 15:16, Bastiaan Naber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if I can ask this here but I could not find any other place
> where I could fine anyone with this knowledge.
>
> I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do
> this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time.
>
> I want to know if this is possible before spending 10,000 euros on a machine
> that has 16 GB of memory.

Make large swap file and test it yourself. Not a problem.
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