TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?

Christopher Hilton chris at vindaloo.com
Wed Aug 1 20:09:16 UTC 2007


Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
> Is TMPFS available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?
> Or do i have to settle for mfs?
> 
> [venting frustration]
> The reason i ask is i need something very flexible when it comes to 
> memory usage as a poor-mans shared-memory feature for a closed source 
> data conversion app, used only occasionally but with *alot* of data 
> passing through. By alot i mean it took our quad core xeon 3 ghz with 4 
> gbyte memory and 4 SAS drives in 1+0 RAID, about a day and a half to 
> process (on disk).
> Simple tests (by others) using netbsd on a single cpu 3 ghz and tmpfs, 
> it took roughly 70 minutes. Most of which was spent loading and 
> unloading the data over the network.
> I'd really like that memory back after use for other things as this 
> server is also serving databases with files etc.
> 
>

I love FreeBSD enough to have run my personal webserver on 
FreeBSD-Sparc64 but I don't understand here. If NetBSD does the work in 
70 minutes why not do it on NetBSD?

-- Chris


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