[CentOS] MySQL on tmpfs?

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 18:00:17 UTC 2006


On 7/27/06, Mike Kercher <mike at vesol.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ever mounted their /var/lib/mysql on a tmpfs or ramfs?  Are
> there any performance gains to be made doing this?


Not really, the database runs in ram as much as possible anyway. You
can tweak the filesystem it writes to and reads from, but for the most
part, it's already in memory.

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