From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 10 17:35:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756ED106566B for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-39.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-39.bluehost.com [69.89.20.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42CC88FC16 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:35:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20585 invoked by uid 0); 10 Oct 2009 17:35:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2009 17:35:00 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=RSJivLA3dZSup67tIsVcGZ2JpeMFcAZ1K6iTmdBqbFTmcIZ14OkEtyPJ6vEm8Y67Va6tUST3ycsPEzQqRuVtTTl8vsVq3zG1C6Wl0XxLo/3pfkntWx2y88wvNr/cmtZf; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MwfqO-0003zp-FD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:35:00 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:27:31 -0600 Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:27:31 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091010172731.GB4669@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200910091528.n99FS90I025341@lurza.secnetix.de> <20091009221522.2fbcd123@gumby.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E39vaYmALEf/7YXx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091009221522.2fbcd123@gumby.homeunix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:35:01 -0000 --E39vaYmALEf/7YXx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:15:22PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:28:09 +0200 (CEST) > Oliver Fromme wrote: >=20 > > Randi Harper wrote: > > > / =3D 1GB > > > /var =3D 2GB > > > /tmp =3D 2GB > >=20 > > Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also > > be a memory disk by default.=20 >=20 > I don't see why it should depend on the amount of RAM, since it would > normally be swap-backed. It should depend on the amount of RAM because putting /tmp in memory takes away from the RAM available to the rest of the system. If your system typically runs processes that consume a lot of RAM (like Firefox, ha ha), your system could bog down a lot during typical use if you use a RAM disk for /tmp without considering how much RAM you have and need to use. By default, I think, /tmp should be on the hard drive -- perhaps with an option when partitioning to set it up to use RAM instead of physical storage. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --E39vaYmALEf/7YXx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkrQxAMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWffQCg5T39o+ZvEhSFg1lVjteCnY1v 2ukAoKJMVvwqUrlc9HEKU0bPA+Fo3lmG =XPyA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E39vaYmALEf/7YXx--