I came across this little tip on Cods Place and thought I’d try it out.

The Codfather (how cool a name is that?  I wish my parents had given me a cool name like that rather than Keith!) explains Speeding up your Linux browser using a ramdisk.

I’m going to copy the basic instructions but you should really check out Cods Place – it’s full of interesting little tips and news – mainly about Linux!

On the site there are instructions for doing this for Chrome and for Firefox.

I’m only going to show the Chrome instructions as that’s what I use.

1) create the directoty - sudo mkdir /var/ramdisk

2) then edit this file and add the following line at the end - gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

/var/ramdisk /var/ramdisk tmpfs size=512m 0 0

3) Now mount this new ramdisk to test - sudo mount /var/ramdisk

We now have our ramdisk, and we can add this to the start options for Chromium.

Add –disk-cache-dir=/var/ramdisk to the command/icon that you use to start Chrome.

I’ve been using this for a couple of weeks now – I’m not sure how much it has speeded up Chrome because it was pretty damn fast to start with.

It certainly hasn’t slowed it down – that’s for sure!

All the best

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