<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">You're over thinking this. Even on a busy system it won't matter. You're only going to get 600 calls on a box before it starts to break (If that many)... disk I/O should be more than enough to take that many calls.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/b</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 14, 2005, at 7:24 PM, Boris Bakchiev wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It is when it comes to writing.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">No buffering at all as far as I can see.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">All data gets dumped to hdd right away.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I guess linux caching should take care of it, but on a busy system I can</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">afford to dedicate 1GB ramdisk (or 1GB tmfs) for temporary storage of</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">files.</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>