Firefox & tmpfs

[Chris G]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:56:51PM +0000, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> On 11 January 2011 07:28, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
> >> Performance. :)
> >
> > Old versions of Firefox you could easily configure the size of RAM cache
> > as well as file system cache... On modern versions I can only see a
> > setting for "Cache" which is the filesystem one.
> >
> > If you put the cache in a tmpfs, that is, in fact, RAM (which is why it
> > gets deleted at each reboot).
> >
> > If you have plenty of RAM (and Sandy has 8 gigs, plenty for doing only
> > open office and firefox on a single user desktop) then allocating a gig
> > or so to tmpfs and putting firefox cache in there is a great way to
> > increase firefox caching performance by orders of magnitude.
> >
There's no point is there, the disk data will be cached in RAM anyway so
using tmpfs makes no difference.

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Chris Green