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by detaro 3569 days ago
I don't think it would do much there either: If it fits in your left-over RAM, then it's probably in the disk cache. If it doesn't, then you can't create a RAM disk large enough.

It might help with latency for the long-tail of data that isn't used very often and thus maybe replaced in the cache by other data, but on the other hand the OS probably had a reason to replace it and forcing it to stay in RAM might slow everything down.