From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Thu 16 Aug 2001 - 10:59:02 IST
Ah. It seems Linux is a little over-smart with RAM disks. The box I was
playing had /var as a compressed ramdisk. And, with apache dumping access
logs into /var/log/httpd and a little database living in /var also, it was
getting hammered. It must have been recompressing 32k chunks everytime
there was a log write, and everytime the database was read, it would have
to decompress it...because ramdisks aren't buffered (for obvious reasons).
D'oh.
Anyway, turning off httpd logging & not having a compressed RAM disk
seems to have solved the problem. Anyone know enough about RAM disks to
confirm that they aren't buffered ?
Kate
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