Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

[Paul Hartman]

On 12/30/2011 08:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2011 14:02:46 Paul Hartman wrote:
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>> On 12/30/2011 07:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
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>> > Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB.
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>> > What do you have for mount options in fstab?
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>> You can set the size with size=XXXX parameter. For example I have mine
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>> set to 10G:
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>> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=10G 0 0
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>> It is shared memory, so that 10G is not actually used unless it is...
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>> well, actually used. :)
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> ...and you can set the size to be more than the RAM you have; any used
> excess gets swapped out.
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Though, if you get to that point, performance would probably be better
if you used disk for tmp in the first place. :)