Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)

Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01T16:19:31Z

Hi Ed,

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> What does tmpfs have to do with ram size? Its swappable. This
> _might_ be useful for ramfs but for tmpfs, IMHO, its not a good
> idea.

I agree and I think if you add this option it should adjust to a
percentage of (ram + swap). With this it would be a really nice
improvement.
I even had patches for this but to do it efficently you would need to
add some hooks to swapon and swapoff.

Greetings
Christoph