On Wednesday 06 May 2009 14:37:59 Sami Näätänen wrote: > IMHO You shouldn't use tmpfs for the PM temp dir, until you can give that > around 2GB, which shouldn't be more than half of your total memory.
I can't endorse this. I have 4 GB physical RAM on this box, and I have this line in /etc/fstab: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=6g 0 0 It works well. Whenever the kernel needs more than the currently available physical RAM it uses the swap partitions to make the extra space (4 x 2 GB on different drives, though that's far more than I need). That doesn't happen often - mostly only when OpenOffice is being compiled. Oh, and I run BOINC programs all the time too, and those are somewhat profligate with memory. -- Rgds Peter
