Re: ramdisk
Aaron Walker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.performance |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 � wrote: | Hi, | | IMHO Linux has very good caching mechanism, so there is no need of | ramdisks (er, ramfs or tmpfs) in most situations. | | On the contrary, Solaris is using tmpfs for /tmp and /var/run. I really | like this idea, so after Gentoo install I always add | | none /tmp tmpfs size=64M,mode=1777 0 0 | | to my fstab. Your preferences may differ. | I do this as well. On my laptop, I also mount /var/log as tmpfs to reduce the number of writes (and hence prolong battery life). - -- guru, n: A computer owner who can read the manual. Aaron Walker - Gentoo Developer [ Gentoo/BSD / cron / shell-tools ] [email protected] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBeR23C3poscuANHARAky3AKDrBHAtQQJ/iSPA8JrWkzrGVhF4bQCgpVTF FGQSEeTFR42KY/vloSwM67E= =C2Hk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list