Re: i-ram vs. tmpfs (was: Re: Mail clustering)
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:10:30PM -0400, Matt Cuttler wrote:
> > > OTOH, it'd be interesting to see how this i-ram card would perform as
> > > swap space
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:50:00PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > If you have 4G of RAM to put in an i-RAM then why would you use it
> > as swap? If your machine swaps, use the 4G as real RAM!
On 05.04.07 10:05, Craig Sanders wrote:
> exactly.
Are you both sure that the speed of accessing the data thgourh SATA
interface won't slow down your system more than using it as swap device
in addition to journals?
> > I'd say the killer application for i-RAM is something like holding
> > external journals of other filesystems.
>
> yep, that and postfix (or other MTA) queues.
especially with data journalling I'd say.
> BTW, from what i've heard, there isn't much difference between using
> an I-RAM as an external journal and using any reasonably fast disk
> drive. i.e. using any external journal device gives you most of the
> benefit, after that it's diminishing returns. and a new hard disk is a
> lot cheaper than an I-RAM. about $50 AUD for a brand-new 80GB drive,
> which is about the smallest drive you can get nowadays.
That's possible, but it adds some reliability contrary to other devices.
> i.e. spend $50 on a new SATA drive for the external journal device
> and get 80-90% of the performance improvement that you would get for
> spending $500 on a 4GB I-RAM.
the problem is probably the SATA bus speed... but even you say it's faster :)
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