On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 09:38:53PM +0000, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >> Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about > >> the logs either. > > > > You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;) > > That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on > tmpfs, but /tmp, /var/run & /var/lock instead, because I was worrying > about wasting tmpfs with big logs, since my box might be up for months. > > I think staled tmpfs file might eventually be swapped out of ram to HD to > clear up space. Is that so?
Yes. But if you write a *lot* of logfiles, this could be detrimental to performance. OTOH, should do less frequent writes than it would to a normal disk until it starts to flush pages out. > Is it a good idea to put chunky /var/log on tmpfs? Make sure you consider what will happen when it's filled to capacity. If the tmpfs size (of all tmpfses) exceed your RAM+swap, the machine will lock hard. So make sure you mount with an appropriate size= parameter so the kernel won't run out of memory pages. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120115222851.go9...@codelibre.net
