On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:56:41 Brian K. White wrote:
On 4/9/2011 1:34 PM, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:09:39 Anton Aylward wrote:
[...] There is a slight speed advantage in not hitting the disk for /var/run and /var/lock, but you'd be hard pressed to see it, not least of all in that if you're that hard pressed you're probably consuming ram and pushing it out onto swap and so getting back the disk activity.
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?!!
Almost everything is noticeably snappier (especially Dolphin!). Firefox seems better too.
[...] There are fixes out there for mapping /var/log to a tmpfs, but that makes me a bit nervous; I like to be able to retain logs across boots.
Easy - mount -t tmpfs -o size=100MB /var/log
I hear your comment about retaining logs across boots, though. Sometimes that's needed, but the uptime on my system currently sits at 93 days, 10:50 (and I can't actually remember what that reboot was for...I think it may have been a power outage, actually)...
Of course you don't need to fix your roof when it's not raining.
The day your box DOES reboot (unexpectedly) is one of the days you want the logs leading up to the event THE MOST.
Absolutely, which is why I *don't* have /var/log on tmpfs. :-) -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org