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Some customers may benefit by moving files that NMIS reads/writes to very often to a RAM Disk. We have seen this improve performance on pollers that have shared storage and 2,000+ nodes provisioned. The concept is that NMIS will be able to read/write to RAM faster than the shared storage. Most of the files that NMIS touches very often are found in the nmis8/var directory.
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Any files written to RAM disk will not survive a reboot. After the server reboots the RAM disk will be empty. Please review this Wikipedia article that addresses tmpfs: |
Procedure
Step #1 - Determine Space Required
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