From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 20:09:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E374A16A418 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 20:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from corellia.vindaloo.com (corellia.vindaloo.com [64.51.148.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97CC713C459 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 20:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from [172.24.145.69] (endor.vindaloo.com [172.24.145.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by corellia.vindaloo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5638D5CA2; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:09:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46B0E865.6060800@vindaloo.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:09:09 -0400 From: Christopher Hilton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sten Daniel Soersdal References: <46AF827C.2040409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46AF827C.2040409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:09:16 -0000 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 -- __o "All I was doing was trying to get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)___________________________________________________________ Christopher Sean Hilton pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14