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Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help



Celejar:
> 
> 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

This shows that ~620MB are used for applications and data. About 400MB
is used for buffers/cache (don't ask me what the difference is).

> $ 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. Your /tmp might grow up to 1GB, but it only occupies what's really
necessary. This is the main difference between tmpfs and a traditional
RAM disk. Someone posted an interesting link about this topic, IIRC in
this very thread.

J.
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