Move Magento Cache to RAM by tmpfs

**david** · 24-05-2013, 05:12 AM

Pretty straight forward.

First important is to check which user / group has the current permission, no point of loading a ram drive if magento can’t write to it.

so

Code:

cd /home/magento/var/

then perform

Code:

ls -a

Should give you a basic view of the current owner.

Now, we can create our tmpfs drives.

Code:

mount -t tmpfs -o size=128m tmpfs /home/magento/var/cache/

then

Code:

chown user:group /home/magento/var/cache

chmod o+w /home/magento/var/cache

Perform the same for /var/sessions

Their you go, you now have a very fast magento cache

Only downside if you reboot you shall have to remount them, otherwise you can add them to you /etc/fstab

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**Goivvy.com** · 18-05-2016, 01:44 PM

do you have links on by how much it improves performance? (if any)

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**clapcreative** · 13-06-2016, 12:19 PM

I think moving /var to a tmpfs is probably not your biggest bottleneck and would likely be more trouble than its worth. Make sure Magento caching is enabled and you have APC enabled.