[thot_experiment]

Ramdisks are extremely slept on, there is a lot of stuff you can kludge with a ramdisk in a pinch. I had to do some video stream processing the other day and I didn't have time. So I just made a ramdisk and read/wrote jpegs at 30fps, yeah it's stupid as hell, but it worked when I needed it to and that's what matters.

[_0ffh]

I have various folders mapped to RAM, like e.g. /var/tmp.

This has many uses, as you said. E.g. sometimes even just downloading a video stream to disc creates a temporary file in the destination folder for every fragment. I just d/l those into /var/tmp first and then mv the finished video to where it's supposed to live. I'm sure both my SSD and HDD are grateful! =)

[PrayagBhakar]

Doesn’t this make your var and temp rest on boots?

[_0ffh]

Yes, and that's 100% okay for /tmp. For /var/tmp it's a bit more complicated, but it hasn't bitten me yet.

[antx]

Hey, it's not stupid if it works! In the context of this particular game, I can't see why it would be a bad idea. Even if you need to conserve some kind of state... gzip the whole thing and copy it elsewhere, it's going to take seconds!

[I_Am_Nous]

When my SSD was failing (ran out of writes) I used a RAMdisk to edit audio for something. It worked great for that since I couldn't do it otherwise!