Faster browsing with RAM disks
posted Nov 20th 2008 7:14pm by Eliotfiled under: downloads hacks, firefox hacks, lifehacks, macs hacks
A coworker approached us today wondering if they could get a performance boost using Samsung’s newly announced 256GB SSD. Most of their work is done in browser, so we said “no”. They’d only see benefit if they were reading/writing large files. Their system has plenty of RAM, and we decided to take a different approach. By creating a filesystem in RAM, you can read and write files much faster than on a typical hard drive. We decided to put the browser’s file cache into RAM. Read the rest of this entry »
