Re: Loading a database into RAM

2003-01-14 Thread Joseph Bueno
>From my experience: don't do anything. Linux filesystem cache is really efficient and as soon as all your database will be in the cache, you wont get any disk read anymore; only writes when you INSERT/UPDATE data. Our main database server has 2Gb RAM and the total size of all databases is around

Re: Loading a database into RAM

2003-01-14 Thread Per Andreas Buer
Steve Quezadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a mySQL database that is about 240 megabytes. I am loading it > on a Linux server with 2 gigs of RAM. I would like to have the whole > table reside in memory to save time from disk access. Is there any way > to load the tables into RAM on startup

Re: Loading a database into RAM

2003-01-14 Thread Philipp
Hi, if your system suddenly crashs all changes to the database are lost. be aware of this ! regards, philipp p - Original Message - From: "Shamit Verma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: Loadi

Re: Loading a database into RAM

2003-01-14 Thread Shamit Verma
You may try using a Ramdisk as storage for mysql "data" folder. Regards, Shamit http://www.vshamit.com - Original Message - From: "Steve Quezadas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: Loading a database into RAM > I have a mySQL da