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RAM drive for compiling - is there such a thing?

An answer (see below) to one of the questions right here on Stack Overflow gave me an idea for a great little piece of software that could be invaluable to coders everywhere. I'm imagining RAM drive software, but with one crucial difference - it…
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What is the /dev/shm equivalence in Windows System?

I was wondering how can I make the IO faster by writing and reading temporary files to main memory. I've used to write to /dev/shm in Linux. But now I'm in Windows 7. Anyone knows the answer ? Thanks
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Optimize Use of Ramdisk for Eclipse Development

We're developing Java/SpringSource applications with Eclipse on 32-bit Vista machines with 4GB RAM. The OS exposes roughly 3.3GB of RAM due to reservations for hardware etc. in the virtual address space. I came across several Ramdisk drivers that…
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mounting without -o loop

I have written a dummy (ram disk) block device driver for linux kernel. When the driver is loaded, I can see it as /dev/mybd. I can successfully transfer data onto it using dd command, compare the copied data successfully. The problem is that when I…
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Can I use a RAM disk to speed up my IDE?

Duplicate: RAMDrive for compiling - is there such a thing? I have an idea how to speed up my IDE. I want to create a RAM disk and move my solution onto this virtual disk. I think that this can speed up the IDE because RAM is much faster than a…
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RAM disks in GCP Dataflow - is it possible?

Google Compute Engine support RAM disks - see here. I develop a project that will reuse existing code which manipulate local files. For scalability, I am going to use Dataflow. The files are in GCS, and I will send it to the Dataflow workers for…
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Use RAM with gradle and IntelliJ Idea

Currently, I'm using gradle as our production java builder and it's slow. I was thinking is there a way to set-up some kind of RAMdrive working directory, so compiling, building, testing, and running would be much faster and the source code would…
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What is the proper way to have a TFS workspace on a RAM drive?

I have a build definition used in a Gated Check-In build. Its CleanWorkspace parameter is set to None, i.e. the build is incremental. The problem is that after the reboot TFS does not recognize that the complete workspace folder is gone (of course,…
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MySQL Master-Slave replication installation on Windows with RAM Drive

Interesting question I hope that someone can answer for me! We have an application that uses MySQL enterprise, We are trying to see if it's possible to have a Master-Slave replication set up but using a RAM drive, The application being installed on…
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Python doesn't understand tmp folder on RAM drive

I am having lots of trouble installing pretty much any part of the Python ecosystem [on my Windows 10 x64 system]... it turns out that something in the Python runtime used by install scripts is being confused by my RAM drive -based "temp"…
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Not seeing performance increase running django test /w postgresql on ramdrive

For a django project, the tests are running slower and slower as the models grow and the number of migrations as well. A single unittest i have timed now at 200s. I followed this post: http://tech.marksblogg.com/test-django-on-ram-drive.html to work…
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In Eclipse using Maven, I would like to have my build directory in a ram drive. How do I specify project.build.directory?

I am using Eclipse to compile DITA files into PDF and it does a lot of manipulation of the intermediate files before producing the final pdf files. I would like to get these intermediate files onto a RAM drive to speed up the process. The…
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Use of RAM Disk in production environment to speed up application performance

My application is facing issues due to its chatty nature with database. Due to many I/O operations or database calls, it is taking time to complete a flow specialy Batch Jobs. Code optimization is going on and this process will take some time to…
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