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Follow the below mentioned steps to setup MySQL temp directory on a RAM disk.

Create a tmpfs directory :

mkdir /var/tmpfs

Now change the ownership of the newly created directory.

chown mysql:mysql /var/tmpfs

id mysql

Make sure to get the uid and gid for mysql

vi /etc/fstab

tmpfs /var/tmpfs tmpfs rw,uid=498,gid=499,size=500M,nr_inodes=10k,mode=0700 0 0

Save and quit.

mount -a

vi /etc/my.cnf #or the mysql config file for your server

[mysqld]
tmpdir=/var/tmpfs
tmp_table_size=2K

Restart MySQL