On Fri, 5 Jan 2024, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > intermediate "files" will be written to and read from the buffer cache at > > RAM speed and only later go to the disk in the background. > > That depends on the file system and its synchronization model. I once > sped up a script to control a cluster by more than factor 10 by avoiding > intermediate writes to the shared network filesystem of the cluster > nodes. That made the difference between 15 minutes and 30 seconds > runtime.
I'm sure you're already aware of the important differences between that and the situation described in this thread. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
