From: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Cc: "TOURNIER Frédéric" <f.tournier@iut.univ-paris8.fr>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: .img on nfs, relative on ram, consuming mass ram
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:49:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C922E8E.2030907@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C91DEDD.9030508@amd.com>
On 09/16/10 03:09, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Which is only natural, as tmpfs is promising to never swap. So it will
pages in tmpfs can swap. That's difference between ramfs and tmpfs. From
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt:
"tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and
shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap
unneeded pages out to swap space."
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-16 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 9:39 .img on nfs, relative on ram, consuming mass ram TOURNIER Frédéric
2010-09-16 9:09 ` Andre Przywara
2010-09-16 12:01 ` TOURNIER Frédéric
2010-09-16 12:03 ` Andre Przywara
2010-09-16 13:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-09-16 13:48 ` Andre Przywara
2010-09-16 15:59 ` TOURNIER Frédéric
2010-09-20 13:30 ` TOURNIER Frédéric
2010-09-20 14:00 ` Andre Przywara
2010-09-20 15:34 ` TOURNIER Frédéric
2010-09-16 14:49 ` David S. Ahern [this message]
2011-09-19 12:12 ` Rickard Lundin
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