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Re: Mounting /tmp on ram disk



actualy linux works well with ram tmp
I suggest using tmpfs

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

> 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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