On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:06:24AM +0900, Joongul Lee wrote: > I happened to read a nice article on it yesterday. It is located at > "http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html";. According to the > author, CONFIG_TMPFS=y lets you use the POSIX shared memory, and you can > access a nice, ramdisk-like filesystem at /dev/shm. you don't need to mount anything on /dev/shm. > I enabled this option yesterday, and observed that the swap space is used > even though there's plenty ram unused. I suppose this is how shared memory > works? no this is how tmpfs works, anything you put on the tmpfs effectivly uses your swap space. its very similar to the Solaris tmpfs. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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