<p>Or /dev/shm/ on linux.</p>
<p>-Cobi</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2010 9:58 AM, "River Tarnell" <<a href="mailto:river.tarnell@wikimedia.de">river.tarnell@wikimedia.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
> Hash: SHA1<br>> <br>> Matthew P. Del Buono:<br>>> I'm in the conceptual phase of a new bot but it requires a bit of<br>>> processing. Unfortunately the only way this processing can be done is by<br>
>> writing out two small files.<br>> <br>>> However, the processing should be very fast, and after it's done the<br>>> files can be trashed. For that reason, I don't think it's very logical<br>
>> to tax the hard drive with this processing.<br>> <br>> You can use /tmp, which is a memory filesystem for exactly this reason. (But <br>> only on Solaris systems, not Linux, so you probably want to use willow.)<br>
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