--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Kjell Rilbe <kjell.rilbe@...>
wrote:

>
> Tiberiu Horvath wrote:
>
> > why not keep the database file in a RAM disk ... (I would do this

only

> > for testing)
>
> But for a read-only DB it would be fine, wouldn't it?
>
> So, diwic2, is your DB read only?

No; it is updated often and those changes need to go to disk. Also,
the entire database do not fit into system memory (or at least our
system should not depend on that), but the data that is accessed
frequently seems to be small enough to fit into system memory (it is
hard to get an exact measure of this though).