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Windows have supercache it greatly improves speed. Perhaps some lazy writes for IO that wait till up to 5 secondes.

user4951
– user4951

2013-01-25 02:23:16 +00:00
Commented Jan 25, 2013 at 2:23
@JimThio, Linux does that automatically.

vonbrand
– vonbrand

2013-01-26 06:41:24 +00:00
Commented Jan 26, 2013 at 6:41
A tmpfs is not a RAMFS. RAMFS is a piece of RAM reserved for use as a fake disk. tmpfs is using memory to save file data (and allow access via file operations), the space used grows and shrinks as required. If the memory is needed for something else, data is moved to swap.

vonbrand
– vonbrand

2013-01-26 06:46:13 +00:00
Commented Jan 26, 2013 at 6:46

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