Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:54:49 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160914175449.185d12b0@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:03:49 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >I do almost everything like that on tmpfs. That was my suggestion, too. However, it has got one pitfall, the size of tmpfs. At least on Linux a swap doesn't help, if tmpfs should run out of space. Anyway, I nearly compile everything in tmpfs with just 1.9 GiB, just sometimes I enlarge it to 3 GiB or directly use the hard disk. A kernel not necessarily fails, but could fail to build with just 1.9 GiB, something like Firefox fails with 1.9 GiB, but at the moment I can't remember that 3 GiB ever was too small. I've got 4 GiB or RAM, but a little bit less is available, so a modern machine with much more than 4 GiB RAM should allow to chose a huge enough tmpfs. Regards, Ralf
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