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Date:      Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:36:47 +0200
From:      Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
Subject:   Re: is TMPFS still highly experimental?
Message-ID:  <4E8A00BF.5000508@fsn.hu>
In-Reply-To: <4E89ED58.6020104@delphij.net>
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  On 10/03/2011 07:14 PM, Xin LI wrote:
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> Hi, Attila,
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> On 10/03/11 04:29, Attila Nagy wrote:
>> For me, the bug is still here: $ uname -a FreeBSD b 8.2-STABLE
>> FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #5: Wed Sep 14 15:01:25 CEST 2011
>> root@buildervm:/data/usr/obj/data/usr/src/sys/BOOTCLNT  amd64 $ df
>> -h /tmp Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>> tmpfs           0B      0B      0B   100%    /tmp
>>
>> I have no swap configured. The machine has 64 GB RAM.
>> vm.kmem_size=60G; vfs.zfs.arc_max=55G; vfs.zfs.arc_min=20G
> This sounds like a configuration issue.  Running without swap is not
> recommended anyways.
I guess it depends on the workload. In general, you are possibly right, 
but if you need predictable response times and you can tolerate dying 
processes, swapping may not be the right thing to do.




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