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. =:^)

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