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From: Stephan Feder <sf@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-performance@g.o
Cc: jesse@×××××××××××.net
Subject: [gentoo-performance] Re: tmpfs Questions
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:07:53
Message-Id: 3EBFD79B.5A7101BE@b-i-t.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-performance] tmpfs Questions by MAL
1 MAL wrote:
2 >
3 > Jesse Jacobs wrote:
4 > > I've read about a deadlock condition.
5 > > What would constitute a oversive tmpfs?
6 > > I thought anything unable to be allocated would be paged out to swap.
7 >
8 > No, if you run out of tmpfs, that's it.. you're out of disk space.. it
9 > wont use swap to emulate disk space.
10 ...
11
12 Not true. tmpfs lives in virtual memory, not physical memory only.
13
14 Regards,
15 Stephan
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