On 25.03.07 23:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > What is the performance impact of mounting /tmp in tmpfs? Some thoughts: > > 1. It is a lot faster for a lot of stuff, as long as your kernel has proper > swapping behaviour. This happens because tmpfs can avoid a great deal of > costly operations that other filesystems with backing store need to perform > (such as the need to keep metadata in sync on the backing store). > > 2. It will waste more virtual memory space than your regular filesystem with > a backing store, as it needs to keep all data in virtual memory (even if it > happens to be swapped). This *can* be a problem on 32-bit systems.
is virtual memory a problem on 32bit OS? I think even 32bit CPUs do have support for much larger _virtual_ memory. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Emacs is a complicated operating system without good text editor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
