From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: RaXl NXXez de Arenas Coronado <raul@viadomus.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rml@tech9.net
Subject: Re: Is /dev/shm needed?
Date: 17 Dec 2001 09:34:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38zc2i6tf.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16FtLQ-00006A-00@DervishD.viadomus.com>
In-Reply-To: <E16FtLQ-00006A-00@DervishD.viadomus.com>
Hi Raúl,
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, RaXl NXXez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
>>When one of these gets full I can either stop the affending job or
>>increase the limit
>
> That's one of my doubts: if the available RAM decreases then the
> buffer (disk) cache will do too. So, if I have /tmp mounted with
> tmpfs, the contents here will be cached no matter the available RAM,
> or am I completely wrong?
No, it will be swapped out.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-17 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-17 8:41 Is /dev/shm needed? RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-17 8:34 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
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2001-12-17 4:14 Jason Rivard
2001-12-16 23:37 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:47 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:56 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-17 0:17 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-17 2:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-17 15:50 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-12-16 23:36 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:15 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:12 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:31 ` Pierfrancesco Caci
2001-12-17 8:36 ` ncw
2001-12-17 8:19 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-16 22:02 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 22:30 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:13 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:26 ` J Sloan
2001-12-16 23:27 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17 9:03 ` Jurgen Botz
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