On 12/1/05, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > You might have already thought of this and turned the idea down, but > how about using tmpfs for this to keep the cache in RAM? Do you know > how large of a cache you'll be keeping? If it's not too large, say > under a gig or two, you might consider this, because no disk > filesystem will beat the performance of RAM. Unfortunately my needs exceed the RAM of the machine. I'm caching data for 500 people, so a couple of GB will fill up awrfully fast. Good thought though, for a smaller box that would be the optimal solution.