Re: S.E. ver. 6 slow when DBTEMP is not /tmp

Posted in 1996

Mark van Holsteijn — Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:59:59 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> > Christian Hansen <chrhan@pip.dknet.dk> wrote: > > :We have a Standard Engine version 6 running on a Sparc/Solaris > :installation which bahaves pretty strange. > > :If DBTEMP (which defaults to /tmp) is set to anything else but /tmp > :the amount of i/o the backend performs increases dramatical, have > :anybody seen the same behavour, and if so, what did you do > :about it ? > The reason for this is that the file system type of /tmp on Solaris is "tmpfs": a memory based file system. All file I/O is kept in memory and never written to disk. Mark van Holsteijn holsteijnm@usoft.nl