The main attraction of Linux for many of its users is the high degree of customization that can be achieved with a little study and a bit of work.  That also happens to be the main reason many have no desire to try to learn Linux and the tricks needed to get it to run perfectly.  Hack a Day has posted a rather handy and easy to implement tweak today involving the use of a RAMDisk to speed your internet browsers cache.  The article might be targeted towards speeding up your browser but you should treat this more like a general purpose tool for speeding any program that is suffering performance degradation because of a high latency cache.  Very handy for those with a few gigs of RAM currently doing very little for their system.

“In Linux systems (specifically Fedora and Ubuntu systems), this can be achieved for Chrome and Firefox by creating a larger ramdisk, mounting the ramdisk after boot, and then setting the browser of choice to use that ramdisk as a cache. The necessary commands to do this are readily available on the internet, which makes life easy. Using ramdisks for performance boosts are not exclusive to browsers, and can be used for other software such as Nagios for example.”

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