Why creating files in /dev/shm is not faster than creating files in /tmp?
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Let's say I have two bash files. The first one is called
diskFile.bash
:
for i in {1..10000}
do
file=$(mktemp)
cat > $file $file <<- "SIGN"
"Hello World"
SIGN
done
echo "finished"
On Linux, files created inside /dev/shm
are files inside the RAM memory of the system. But if I try executing the first file with time bash diskFile.bash
, I get:
finished
15.56user 5.74system 0:20.25elapsed 105%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 6324maxresident)k
And with time bash ramFile.bash
:
finished
15.20user 5.37system 0:19.45elapsed 105%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 6380maxresident)
The difference of time doesn't look like a significant one considering /dev/shm
should be using RAM memory. Why creating temporary files inside /dev/shm
is not faster than creating temporary files inside /tmp
? Is there any way of speeding up the process of creating files using bash?
Asked by raylight
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Mar 22, 2022, 03:28 PM
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