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		pizza234 56 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with... Little trick for developers: put the database transaction log in /dev/shm (ensure that it's not too large), and some operations will be enormously faster.

msgodel 56 days ago [–]

That kind of defeats the point of the thing.

pizza234 50 days ago | [–]

I was referring to development environments.

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