Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:57:36 -0400 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> To: Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? Message-ID: <46B1FEF0.5050501@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46B0E865.6060800@vindaloo.com> References: <46AF827C.2040409@gmail.com> <46B0E865.6060800@vindaloo.com>
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Christopher Hilton wrote: > 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 > > Curiosity got the best of you, huh? :) I believe the environment could go without the damage this additional computer would do, in electricity alone, not to mention all the heavy metals in the computer. I believe it wouldn't be progress to make the 4x core machine to run an operating system that, i believe, can't efficiently utilize the hardware ( ( heavy metals + electricity ) / utilization ). -- Sten Daniel Soersdal
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