Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:43 AM,  <gentoo-user@××××.de> wrote:
> On 17-05-24 at 05:34, Rich Freeman wrote:
> [..]
>> Others have mentioned zram.  I've used it, but unless something has
>> changed one of its limitations is that it can't give up memory.  That
>> is less of an issue if you're using swap since it can be swapped out
>> if idle.  However, if you're not using swap then you're potentially
>> giving up a chunk of RAM to do it, though less RAM than a tmpfs if it
>> is full most of the time (which I doubt is typically the case).
> Seems to work fine here (with kernels newer than the late 3.x when I started using zram):
>

Thanks.  Useful to know.  Perhaps something changed.  Then again, I
don't think I actually tested it so it could have also been
misinformation somewhere.

-- 
Rich