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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 15:46:56
Message-Id: slrnoidv2o.udl.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Do either of these reduce the effect of (spinning) drive thrashing and
3 > desktop latency increasing when swapping takes place?
4
5 I never made any benchmarks. I just heard that some people are using
6 the combination of both to avoid swap altogether (or only have an
7 fallback swap which is used only in emergency situations although
8 swappiness values are kept normal).