From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 30 10: 4:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBFF37B67B for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 10:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13IwVS-000N8H-00; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:04:06 +0200 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:04:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Doug Barton Cc: Ted Sikora , "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: /tmp on a ramdisk? Message-ID: <20000730190406.A88910@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <39821108.CD43006A@home.com> <398223FF.17B737A7@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <398223FF.17B737A7@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 05:23:27PM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-07-28 (17:23), Doug Barton wrote: > Ted Sikora wrote: > > > > A while ago several people suggested using /tmp on a ramdisk along with > > softupdates. Right now I am running several production servers with > > 4.1-STABLE with softupdates. I'm really happy with the performance. What > > benefits would I realize using /tmp on a ramdisk? > > CW on this is varied, but the current trend is that /tmp on a md is just a > waste of ram, since (basically) everything in /tmp is in ram twice. I think that's MFS, not MD. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message