Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:50 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-01-25 21:48 +0100, Celejar wrote:
>
> > You're right; I see now that 'free' reports only 317376 free. This is
> > a laptop, and I do hibernate it a couple of times a day, so I suppose
> > that the cache(s) are thrown away to use the RAM for hibernation (and
> > to avoid pointlessly saving cached disk data in RAM back to disk), and
> > then when the system is restored, the RAM becomes free again until it's
> > once again used for cache or application storage?
>
> Yes, that's it (compare the output of "free" before and after
> hibernating to convince yourself). If you don't want to get your cache
> blown away, use suspend (to RAM) rather than hibernation.
I'd love to (sometimes), but I've never been able to get it to work on
this machine, even after a fair bit of futzing with s2ram options.
[FTR, it's an Acer Aspire 3690.]
Celejar
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