From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 12:16:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26691 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26685 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id MAA21586; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:16:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:16:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: William Woods cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: MFS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Basically, if you put your filesystem (/tmp) into RAM, expect it to be much much faster then normal filesystem residing on the drive. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote: >I have been thinking of playiong with a MFS. I have 128meg RAM and 256 Swap on >a P200. What benefits would I expect to find with a MFS /tmp system? If there >are benefits, would would be optimial settings for a MFS > >---------------------------------- >William Woods >--> FreeBSD 2.2.6 <-- >Date: 20-Jul-98 >Time: 11:08:39 >---------------------------------- > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message