A RAM disk might work under the Linux 2.4 kernel. The subject was discussed on 
Slashdot..

http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/09/19/0528207.shtml

...but what are you running this on? Is the DB server only serving the database?

Would be interested to know what you find out.

Donal



On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:00:15 -0800 "Yury V. Bukhman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Background:
> I have a moderately-sized (0.9G) database which serves as a backend to a
> search engine.  I am thinking of copying the entire database
> into RAM.  
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