From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 14 23:38:57 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201DABDA618 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:38:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm31-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm31-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 937891F93 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:38:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1473896328; bh=VgbGDDowDS+yo292+PprFEiCMStdbisObIiTmuPEDP8=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=IwRPtGdoBEVStewq9CwO9OzFJrRX5SthyvXjzuL6fI0EbqXC29FAQmxZtBOzWYZlgRT8sn5OyGznRMiDUc4UfHBKznaYN2U97yqKVMKlr4SJTRycV3GmB9RsgUouh8EEDbLtYxfBYGn85t9B3cS07wrFY3Y8sU32rvnjKKmBCM9E3wObkDDeixJGkp0nkTjzw2mavioygse65X2FcuFzwLtByk5cccVsbB/RgLb8tQzuulpuAt4QJ/yYB8G7r7nq0uVToy7VH/aebWmGS9y7O6nVUsBLnhIZn3TaI5vY5zeWwL5iYB6KVhdu9GcbaTS0AbOKGMwQ3AZJL7hyXvC89w== Received: from [212.82.98.50] by nm31.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2016 23:38:48 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.81] by tm3.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2016 23:38:48 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp118.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2016 23:38:48 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 341271.25075.bm@smtp118.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: kMTAhZIVM1lSd2vomxL41GOb.VB8iXde4cPnmoFn7H7Ri8n I6PsforO0JVjwcaQk_YPxOyx3EmCKDaETOt6m2C27A.7c5Z4HhoqdqPuNKzJ swF8yPb0u0FWMMPP5dub.wMpr3wjYXLrzne0einF0WKDLnciqO6QK5Q5WPcg nuvmRd9XxCbGc88zcnuN9iF.usBkPdizpCMNHtMjVonb5nEu39xMcuzQOLvQ vF.RwXw06VAL.RyW2id_GjqJVSyEoWlk6nrZAiBa3kH9y9JH.OosHWfV0R4Y NerSHECva5VT.Pq5PcwNjtuRzUsb8EI2zAU0b_4CTgfDidU78VOOiedC_YoS gNMy6RsI3rP9tYPeNcV_ZHblD_LkntqdT5H.XDp0iQpDMyeRU5n3T0QTFl5O y70tQq48rbdqXdgZ82t6.aDmkjoiVMznIhjbgivHxn75nNhAsOGNF8Bk1BTR _G06iIDSFw83kMU4fCL0t6RM0iGggbTGahB4ynEesRWsixyAK6A.wm7YClkU Nq.NCU4pYwVQaQZPF.8R.EmoVht1IwrgSsCHq8PAa6vqQphqot_ZC.EZ_ZU_ OFdf.BSy1Vv31kuYvdrg8vb8oDYaJm8c- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:38:48 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915013848.5564c238@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160914221954.00fb1d56@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160914175449.185d12b0@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914221954.00fb1d56@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0-2-ge48b739 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:38:57 -0000 On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:19:54 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >IIRC with 4 GiB RAM you can have up to 16 GiB of swap, so you could >support up to about 19 GiB of tmpfs if you want. Ok, but I guess than tmpfs could use the whole memory and cause issues with other software running at the same time. It would be nice, if here would be a possibility to assign 3 GiB of 4 GiB to tmpfs and if the 3 GiB are reached swap should be used. Perhaps it does exist, I might be just to lazy to find out. Regards, Ralf