Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help
On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if any) memory. So, unless it is being actively
>> used by files in the tmpfs, it can be used by other applications.
>
> I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have:
>
> $ uptime
> 20:46:09 up 5 days, 5:30, 9 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.25
>
> $ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2065172 1047312 1017860 0 66064 357512
> -/+ buffers/cache: 623736 1441436
> Swap: 1949688 102364 1847324
>
> $ df | grep tmp
> tmpfs 1032584 16 1032568 1% /lib/init/rw
> tmpfs 1032584 0 1032584 0% /dev/shm
> none 1032584 2440 1030144 1% /tmp
>
> So my /tmp is using 1GB.
No, because more than 99% of the space on /tmp are free.
Sven
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