Re: Indexes on RAM disk = insanity?

> RAM appears to be the bottleneck -- lots
> of swaps in and out.
> can we put the database indexes on a RAM disk?

Can you increase the RAM in the machine? I guess I should assume you're
maxed out.

Rick
pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote on 07/29/2005 10:32:28 AM:

> All:
>
> We have a postgres 7.4 server where we're trying to achieve some
speedups.
> Right now, at least superficially, RAM appears to be the bottleneck --
lots
> of swaps in and out.
>
> There is another consultant beside myself in the mix and he asked this
> question: can we put the database indexes on a RAM disk? Won't that speed
> things up?
>
> My first instinct is NEVER NEVER NEVER to put any database data in
volatile
> storage like that. But on second thought, I thought I'd ask. Is this
crazy?
> If one did it, how would you handle repopulating the indexes if the RAM
> disk were lost? Just have a shell script that would do that
automatically?
> Or will postgres 8 rebuild an index if it doesn't find it where it
expects?
>
> I recognize, or think I do, that PG 8 tablespaces would be required to
> accomplish this.
>
> Would this be insane? Has anyone done it?
>
>
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