Overview
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 these files that NMIS touches very often are found in the nmis8/var directory.
Procedure
Step #1 - Determine Space Required
There are two questions that quickly come to mind:
- How big should the RAM disk be?
- How much RAM is available?