From: Adam Schrotenboer <adam@tabris.net>
To: "Robert Love" <rml@tech9.net>,
"RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado" <raul@viadomus.com>
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is /dev/shm needed?
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:13:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011216231358.99830FB80D@tabris.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16FjME-0000WW-00@DervishD.viadomus.com> <1008541849.11242.2.camel@phantasy>
In-Reply-To: <1008541849.11242.2.camel@phantasy>
On Sunday 16 December 2001 17:30, Robert Love wrote:
> In other words, if you have memory to spare and the data ought to be
> cached, Linux probably will cache it anyhow. On the other hand, if you
> have lots of memory to spare, give it a try. Mount /tmp or all of /var
> in tmpfs.
Unfortunately, some(many?) distros are b0rken in re /var/. There is stuff put
there that is needed across boots (for example, mandrake puts the DNS master
files in /var/named.)
>
> It is dynamic, so you don't need to specify a size. If you want to give
> a maximum size (probably a good idea), give one. Depends on what your
> tmp usages are and how much free memory you have.
>
> Robert Love
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-16 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-16 22:02 Is /dev/shm needed? RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 22:30 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:13 ` Adam Schrotenboer [this message]
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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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 23:36 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
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
2001-12-17 4:14 Jason Rivard
2001-12-17 8:41 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-17 8:34 ` Christoph Rohland
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