Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> posted 58965d8a0907080737s2c4a71dah3c9b54e55f02d...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:37:01 -0500:
> In other words if you have a 2 gig tmpfs it's not going to eat up 2gb of > your RAM unless you have actually put 2gb of files onto it. Good point. I neglected to mention that in my reply, taking it as a given. However, if someone didn't understand that tmpfs could swap, it's unlikely they'd understand this bit either, so it's certainly worth mentioning. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
