Roger Luedecke said the following on 11/14/2011 08:48 PM:
What are those things? I have never seen those before. Did my install go really bad? I don't have enough ram for those to be ram-disks. Is this something needed by systemd?
Yes, and no. The ramfs existed in 11.4 if you chose to use it. It provided a marginal improvement in performance in some circumstances. If not needed then it gets swapped out :-) RTFM MOUNT(8) and google for many interesting articles My 11.4 system has grep tmpfs /etc/fstab varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755,size=150K 0 0 varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=20K 0 0 vartmp /var/tmp tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=1G 0 0 Does it make a difference? Yes. There are many things for which /tmp is a quick scratchpad and having it as a memory -- LRU -- makes a difference. If you use /tmp to accumulate piles of stuff 'that you'll get round to someday', then NO! Handling of locks for short-lived programs, yes. YMMV, quite wildly! -- The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. -- H. L. Mencken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org