We have benchmarked this at our company and notivced that using a ramdisk does not give much extra performance over just turning of synchronous_commit in Postgr

We have benchmarked this at our company and notivced that using a ramdisk does not give much extra performance over just turning of synchronous_commit in PostgreSQL. Most of the slowdown from the database turned out to be latency from waiting on the background writer to fsync.