On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Frederic Crozat
Honestly, someone needs to test carefully (e.g. on a machine with small RAM) before moving toward this direction as default. Only facts and proofs can shut up bike-shed talks.
Agreed.
I propose to collect the options and questions we have at one place in the wiki,
I've created a blank page for now on http://en.opensuse.org/Tmp-on-tmpfs
I'll try to fill it with the various informations I got here and from Debian and Gentoo folks.
I've been using debian testing on a 4G system. I updated from debian squeeze (which used a regular tmp partition) to debian testing (which uses tmpfs). I use memory-intensive programs I write myself - I know their memory usage quite a lot, and I feel the wasted RAM by tmpfs. At first I didn't know why my programs swapped when they didn't use to (they use close to 4G), and then I noticed debian is assigning ~700M to tmpfs. It's hurting even though the partition itself only has 500k used (measured with du --max-depth=0 -h), probably because it will partially fill up during the workload, otherwise I cannot explain the performance difference. And, if you were wondering, it is shadowing an explicit tmp partition I made during installation, but it's not using systemd. So, at least without systemd, debian is not honoring fstab entries. Hope that bit of information is useful. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org