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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:16:30PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote |
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> I even have set up a ramdisk in /var/tmp/portage for emerge. Except |
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> for kdelibs its 1.5 Gigs are more than enough. And if the ramdisk |
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> is empty, the free space is used for RAM. |
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Why not use the built-in /dev/shm directly, and avoid the overhead of |
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a ramdisk? |
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waltdnes@d530 ~ $ ll /dev/shm |
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total 0 |
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drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 Jun 21 14:46 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 14080 Jun 23 17:10 .. |
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waltdnes@d530 ~ $ echo "Hello World" > /dev/shm/greeting.txt |
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waltdnes@d530 ~ $ ll /dev/shm |
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total 4 |
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drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 Jun 24 21:01 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 14080 Jun 23 17:10 .. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 waltdnes users 12 Jun 24 21:01 greeting.txt |
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waltdnes@d530 ~ $ cat /dev/shm/greeting.txt |
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Hello World |
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waltdnes@d530 ~ $ |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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