On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:22, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles': > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:45:26 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: > > Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs > > out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. > > Really?
Yes, tmpfs is backed by virtual memory not real memory so it will use your swap if needed. However, by default, each tmpfs mount is limited to 1/2 the physical RAM. In any case, it seems questionable to put yourself in a position where tmpfs is hitting the HD often; it's not tuned for such craziness and probably performs worse than other filesystems in that case. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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