From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 09:34:37 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 77912BDA524 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:34:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm12-vm6.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm12-vm6.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.176]) (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 E9E4E1C3F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:34:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1473931949; bh=0eUGtOLqVGPQQy6ar0BsQH7b9H58R4FB71MzGQGqHzM=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=hXoVLRcVOvRpnfgTL+IfbK7IlzvucYKi7UmVNut48J18XKb3H33dCgCVlWBrhHZqAFvAYSjnWyM+E+Cr5h5jzq2yIpvJRK0RzX6SoyblPuMMl+4RXx2Rx01So92ZsNjZAt/g4rLPq3kss3w+yrcvAiEmWwg8TJi9ukbpLjxOy1QvPeuADl9sUiaI68LA2e3hD92Mz4II/ulNWkNP0xV3QxNhhGkvrM5dXXhRhTfSU6FHMzsmfT+2odnl7bIR72+HWVX/eT+lBKzTzmCr8xsC27JoVAu5iKByegTPgYrR3LSp2G9WXfsB+q9bB29K7QXbfJflQWBeHSaNKnMKAAJzbQ== Received: from [212.82.98.48] by nm12.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 09:32:29 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.86] by tm1.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 09:32:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp123.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 09:32:29 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 183008.14703.bm@smtp123.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: NA_YvMYVM1n8cUr5TSm.MW4V87J33wT8YAlzlnC_wqpe_qU OIvGBS6nEQMCqY1ntnfwyqdHka9cnIcK5d6kHuVGMx8OJ8ptHpmYNOdypLSF mtdkmZDkM0uOwEu95jECBwaEHgx7wGM9Wh.RtulkfG4dEKPPhohkbjc71WpP Zuhy3lEwuUVPymipowOZlez33MjHqTr1YGdrnWVV0sH38TuPg4zFGMqHoYic 3TJHYa5mlRVYGd5gQtLYXmxLRkz8T4jKHGvZvkTnQo96yhNn8y8iw5OdTT.q EDWd5a06IeH2ANXV9bfEvAtDK023t_7MoDOJ8VtMiqIJ7QJdo3Ac7HFGjoZI T3anBd1lNuu8xQyW6orQKALYVc8dNJLKmSEWzInE0CI4bFkhTAb8QNZyrJc8 gHG5d.EDY7xI3IHQ4OZiUFMYW1tRygteLvMYZsMqyzWZHMPcL1CI2NV3lbNc 5U0z1By4NovVZNe4KkcU9RutsszO7Xbh9jcjYand37TxLf4k_NBp2vvYR71i GTe5f9vws.OqUxM0pOeIUy3b4XniObut9zPLH3BEiFjvkg1X_v.h0 X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:32:29 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915113229.7e4e43f3@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160915112757.50a48498@archlinux.localdomain> 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> <20160915112757.50a48498@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 09:34:37 -0000 On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:27:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >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 ... ^^^^^^^^^^^ This should red "uncomment" :D. > >[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