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Syncing Docker tmpfs to Disk?

I have a couple of Docker containers that constantly write to logs. This causes continuous disk I/O, particularly writes. Is there a way to make Docker read/write to a ramdisk, which could ...
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Linux tmpfs write speed slower than RAM speed

I have a HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 server, specs are: CPU: Intel Xeon 2 CPUs E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz, 25MB L3 cache, 10 cores ea RAM: 8x 32GB PC4-17000 DDR4 2133MHz CAS-15 1.2V SDRAM DIMM (256 GB total) ...
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Is it possible to create tmpfs inside lvm puppet module?

we have autoprovisioning of linux machines (using trusty and xenial) and we are using puppet for it. We are using LVM in puppetlabs/lvm and specifying it in hiera. Example: lvm::volume_groups: ...
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Where's my RAM disk being stored?

I'm running an Ubuntu VM under Windows 7, within the VM I've allocated a 5GB RAM disk using sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=5G tmpfs /mnt/gitRAM and then copied files into it. When I then look at conky ...
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In linux is it possible to extend a ramdisk with a physcial drive in a logical volume?

I do not like how tmpfs behaves with swap and will allow memory to be exhausted before using the swap on physical disk (yes swappiness can be adjusted but it's still affecting the rest of the OS by ...
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How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs?

How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs or any RAM disks?
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Can I put /tmp and /var/log in a ramdisk on OS X?

For non-critical Linux systems, I often move things like /tmp and /var/log to tmpfs to save on some disk writing. I've been doing this for a year or so and if I ever need the logs across reboots, I ...
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Is using a Virtual PC on a RAM DISK super fast? (putting the .vhd file in a RAM DISK)

I wonder how or if any one tried to create a RAM DISK, and then put the 2GB (or sometimes 1.2GB) .vhd file into it, and then run the virtual PC using this image. It should be running super fast, as ...
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