[Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

[Erlend Davidson]

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:55:51PM +0000, Erlend Davidson wrote:
>   
>> Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>     
>>> What about using the directory /dev/shm (if it exists) to do the
>>> compilation?  For the record, it is a filesystem in RAM which is
>>> noticeably faster than hard-disk access.
>>>       
>> Making a thumbnail for postscript is very easy, I just call 
>> ImageMagick's convert program - there is no middle stage that I could 
>> place on /dev/shm, if that's what you meant?  If anybody knows of a 
>> faster means of generating a thumbnail of postscript please say.
>>     
>
> You can use a tmpfs to generate tex thumbnails for instance :)

But before every thumbnail is generated, I'd have to mount -t tmpfs none 
/tmp/tmpfs and then unmount it at the end... I need to be root to do that.

I've just tried it - no improvement in speed, surprisingly.