1. Mount options: use noatime Most Linux server machines can do without last access time modified for every file and each directory which is being read. So I’ll just go ahead and re-quote for the nth time what Linux Kernel developer Ingor Molar has to say to emphasize the point. i cannot over-emphasise how much [...]
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Linux: In memory filesystems tmpfs vs ramdisk
Although reading and writing to files is fast in Linux with aggressive readahead and caching, it can still slow down applications that make extensive use of ondisk temporary files. As an example MySQL which can do a lot of on disk temporary tables if the temporary tables need to have a large varchar, text or [...]