On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 10:26 +0100, Javier de Miguel Rodríguez wrote: > We can throw more hardware to this, let's see if using memory-based > indexes (via ramdisk) we get better results. Zlib compression on indexes > should be great for this.
Isn't it possible for Linux to compress the ramdisk? It would be a bit difficult to implement zlib compression for indexes for now. In future they'll be written to via lib-fs API, which would make compression possible too by adding a compression middle layer.
