> > Yes. It takes your hardware about 3 seconds to read through 700M of ram. >
> > Keep in mind that you're not just reading RAM. You're pushing system > requests through the VFS layer of your operating system, which is treating > the RAM like a disk (with cylinder groups and inodes and blocks, etc) so > you have all that processing overhead as well. What filesystem did you > format the RAM disk with? > tmpfs > > Why are you doing this? If you have enough RAM to store the table, why > not just allocate it to shared buffers? just allocating will make read from hdd to RAM at first time, to eliminate that > > are you saying it will take 3 seconds surely if i have 50 lakh record