Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/9/2011 10:40 PM, Rodney Baker wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:20:15 Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2011/04/10 03:34 (GMT+0930) Rodney Baker composed:
> > > Anton Aylward wrote:
> > > >   But having /tmp as a tmpfs *does* make a difference
> > >
> > > Thanks for the tip on this one - I just changed mine (/tmp was on /) and,
> > > man, did it make a difference to how kde 4 runs?!!
> >
> > My brain isn't connecting with what to actually do in fstab to accomplish
> > this. Right now I have:
> >
> >         LABEL=07tmp /tmp /ext2 noatime,noacl 1 2
> >
> > What would I do instead?
>
> Try it out first with:
>
>   mount -t tmpfs /tmp [-o size=<value>]
>
> Then if you want to make it permanent add the following to /etc/fstab:
>
> none  /tmp tmpfs size=<VALUE>   0 0
>
> Size is optional - it defaults to 50% of RAM. It accepts either a value in
> bytes (e.g. 200m for 200MB) or a % (of RAM) - mine is set to 25% as a starting
> point. BTW, size is the *limit* - it will not grow past that (but it will only
> use what it needs otherwise).

This should be good... why, pray tell, would you put swap in ram?

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bkw
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