Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful
2012/5/26 Clint Byrum:
> On laptops and other power sensitive devices, this is pretty critical.
> Hypothetical: I have 2GB of RAM, and I want to watch a 50MB video file
> on a connection that will take, say, 10 minutes to cache the whole thing
> (and its a 10 minute video).
> With a regular filesystem hosting /tmp, Every 30 seconds I will wake up
> the hard disk, and write data to it.
There's a much better solution to that: /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode and
laptop-mode-tools. If you `echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode` disk
will spin up only when reading. laptop-mode-tools usually also increase
dirty_*_centisecs allowing to not write cache for minutes. So you get
all the benefits of tmpfs without its problems, like heavy swapping or
size limited by memory. :)
> I doubt most spinning disks will go to sleep in < 30 seconds
Mine spins down in 5 seconds.
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