Its a minor gain if any, but something you might consider doing is running /tmp on a ramdisk via tmpfs. I have begun doing on systems with adequate memory. Though amount of memory needed can vary, depending on existing /tmp partition size.
It might help out to switch your /tmp partition from a on disk file system to a ramdisk using tmpfs. Its as difficult as changing the following lines in /etc/fstab #/dev/sda11 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 none /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=4G 0 0 It can be done on a running system, but likely have to shut most all services down including ssh. Might even have to rely on lsof and fuser to see if anything is still using that filesystem on a running system. I don't think you can get away with a remount command, haven't tried so might be possible. If you do not want to modify fstab right away and/or to dial in size, you can play with it on a running system as follows. umount /tmp mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G tmpfs /tmp Again its a minor gain if any, but anything written to /tmp will now be written to a ramdisk/memory. Which is faster than any disks, I believe including solid state disks. Note: Unfortunately many things write to "tmp" or scratch/cache space else where. So those things won't benefit, but you could also mount those as tmpfs ramdisk as well. Even if they are part of an existing partition (not presently on their own dedicated partition). -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
