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bingo-bongo
on Aug 10, 2024
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Building a highly-available web service without a ...
You don’t even need a ram disk imho, databases already cache everything in memory and only writes reach the disk.
Just try and cold-start your database and run a fairly large select twice.
piker
on Aug 10, 2024
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Also the OS will cache a lot of the reads even if your database isn’t sophisticated enough or tuned correctly. Still could be a fun exercise, as with all things on here.
LtdJorge
on Aug 10, 2024
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Any half decent DBMS bypasses the page cache, except for LMDB.
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Just try and cold-start your database and run a fairly large select twice.