From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 09:30:14 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 4CE11BDA340 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm4-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm4-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.106]) (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 BF15D1938 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1473931676; bh=RlDlGNrnDLbXdfePu1fb5lvchhmm94hVOcXVBu3vhII=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=N3B7bgR9BT78meYQy8D3qqvqYwtg0s58wtt41bU/NtHvVHRwKTTyycLhWLsmkyPMDQ7erpeWE2rm2g+3hbIcEBn8ASJQBoybcc7WU6Vu7hFvIwQrztZzvCl+hALJ3MlI3kqEcV4K3SwgLESi8EBHe5/ebbYUduYuMqhzA38aClJftVtvfPTm6RZNhH5HYJ33gArv1G9zHfnVGJnX/evKS5QrbqqpAgExMMbs+bbKeNH9hKpaUVRe60+bjeOirNUprTj5OXRP/npBZvThMUOkRqwqfoGrYkEd9jH7SPGhPZS93D9MpHb8czhgRe4vB9uRoPPXUKPUGCoUboy38r6Yqw== Received: from [212.82.98.51] by nm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 09:27:56 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.75] by tm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 09:27:56 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp112.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 09:27:56 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 942291.36651.bm@smtp112.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: YNZpw2MVM1ls6Iwlvbjs3hjaCJvGIvYOIZqqkCbG.14JSpJ pMY1jsGBuAW8GO1g8FZZQhkFqFj5vpQtOPAv.NSSlR7Ah32yssoWcKjuZj0W TGAdJ5lJ48WpEY0Ni5WFSBqVGHJZ70AzHzD5QJYdaY3mTG5fk_Twv2y3Wii2 fYXn4dv9utNE2DRUi_Q0RKSKgcTOw_e8V1LzPDSMmRkbRIhJpHg._ho0rUcI rZ1xIVRSZaN8rFZEtpu.wVxceKZczoj7DcwkF1ewfFTuKq1KdhISj.xJ18Ur o0Uk4XtAWVM_AWb2IM3H7sZYNfxmIgDZbi8FZ0o0AhiaO8SIwF1p2QICz6BC nY7hWHXrNUGVKY5_MJLTU7slUGzijf89Gs_EhPwywJiOATdU1D7B0Ojy2Dpv I9ZI6Tql4xLYMXCMTl1UCvvCSBgLx5ZMzSoTSKPV91ydKlKdOA8Tb4D2miyV Qm.TYgNo491pdLAGsJg1SvRGCViczuDwB2ipQR6l7yawIKWZU8iqeIJ8T2_f P9.zU1x.GXlE61dv3WvHHAEfqmOFJdBmlUc_Eb4Q1.eXCqTHYQFihdsUArhf A7iePQsZaW_GTxLDff9lm9NNp5yqn X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:27:57 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915112757.50a48498@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160914175449.185d12b0@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914221954.00fb1d56@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160915013848.5564c238@archlinux.localdomain> 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: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:30:14 -0000 On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:36:04 +0100, Shamim Shahriar wrote: >On 15 Sep 2016 00:39, "Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions" < >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> 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. >> > >Yes it does, and yes you are :P >man fstab I will take a look at freebsd man fstab soon. However, on Linux it doesn't work if I have much swap and comment out the fstab line ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # # UUID=f386221b-fc9c-434b-b4e7-b3b1b97be8aa LABEL=archlinux /dev/sda9 / ext3 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1 # UUID=3e19b702-30ed-4574-91d7-1594fad71842 /dev/sdb7 none swap defaults 0 0 # UUID=4b65ccbf-2219-4734-98fa-16c58d4f60fa #/dev/sda10 none swap defaults,pri=-2 0 0 /dev/sda10 none swap defaults 0 0 #/dev/sda11 /mnt/music ext3 noatime,defaults 0 2 #/dev/sdb12 /home/music ext4 noatime,defaults 0 2 /dev/sda11 /mnt/music ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2 /dev/sdb12 /home/music ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2 #tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G 0 0 ... and on Linux man fstab isn't very helpful. Btw. the default on Linux is half of the RAM, in my case 1.9 GiB, even without the fstab line. Regards, Ralf