On 12/1/05, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might have already thought of this and turned the idea down, but
> how about using tmpfs for this to keep the cache in RAM?  Do you know
> how large of a cache you'll be keeping?  If it's not too large, say
> under a gig or two, you might consider this, because no disk
> filesystem will beat the performance of RAM.

Unfortunately my needs exceed the RAM of the machine.  I'm caching
data for 500 people, so a couple of GB will fill up awrfully fast. 
Good thought though, for a smaller box that would be the optimal
solution.