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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:33:33
Message-Id: 4600634.jIUk2mF83G@energy
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions by Neil Bothwick
1 Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012, 09:23:58 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
3 > > What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is :
4 > > 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0'
5 > >
6 > > This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way.
7 >
8 > man mount explains it all, but the option you want is size, which
9 > defaults to 50%. I use 80% which is what gives the somewhat odd size of
10 > 13GB. This is based on physical RAM, but tmpfs will use swap if there is
11 > not enough memory.
12
13 swap destroys your performance and interactivity so throughly - that is
14 something you really want to avoid.
15
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Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>