[Asterisk-Users] Re: update - 512 Simultaneous Callswith DigitalRecording

[asterisk at anime.net]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Leo Ann Boon wrote:
> I'm not sure tmpfs is the right solution for the OP's problem - disk access 
> slowing down the system. My understanding of tmpfs is that it will swap pages 
> in and out to/from disk. Wouldn't that be as bad as directly writing to disk? 
> I can see tmpfs will have some advantage over direct disk IO when the files 
> are small and short-lived, i.e. less likely to be swapped.

One way around this is to not have swap at all. Then there is no disk i/o 
to worry about. Everything will be in ram.

This is what I do for embedded asterisk servers. tmpfs and no swap.

Ram is cheap.

Problem solved.

-Dan