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As of Laravel 7, there are 6 available cache drivers, with APC giving the best results and the file driver being the only one that requires no extra setup.
I was speaking to a friend last night, who mentioned they used Redis as their cache driver. At this point, I have a project that still uses the file driver.
I was thinking I could use some of that sweet performance of memory-driven cache but I really don’t want to install Redis at this time. Right then a solution hit me, something I knew but not really used. “tmpfs”.
01: $ mount -t tmpfs -o size=12m tmpfs storage/framework/cacheWhat does it do?
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tmpfs: Allows you to store files in RAM by acting as a directory.
Running the above on a Linux server within your Laravel directory will map your storage/framework/cache to your RAM, which means you enjoy the drop in latency of your cached files by using the RAM as opposed to disk IO.
It's a small improvement that can go a long way especially if you use cache a lot within your app.
You can make sure your server switch to RAM storage on restart by putting the command below in your server's system configuration file /etc/fstab
01: tmpfs storage/framework/cache tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=12m 0 0And to revert back to Disk IO use the command below
01: $ umount storage/framework/cacheThe End …
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