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Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

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62 points hiAndrewQuinn | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.391s | source
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pizza234 ◴[27 Jun 25 08:51 UTC] No.44395064[source]▶
Little trick for developers: put the database transaction log in /dev/shm (ensure that it's not too large), and some operations will be enormously faster.
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1. msgodel ◴[27 Jun 25 11:18 UTC] No.44395855[source]▶
That kind of defeats the point of the thing.