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Re: Mounting /tmp on ram disk



On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:47:22AM +0200, Iftach Hyams wrote:
> The second option (as seen on SunOS) - mount the /tmp on a virtual files
> system
> resident in the swap. It actually a ram disk that can extend to the swap
> partition
> when needed.

It's usually suggested against using RAM disks in Linux, because
while a RAM disk holds on to a static amount of memory not allowing
anything else to use it, buffers (AKA disk caching) are much
smarter (release memory when something else demands it) and still
give the same performance.

Then again, I'm not really answering your question ...

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