Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:32:29 +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: <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> <CAOyJeZTzo4Kh9OaKQk6_-6qB8imHbGGMgT53DNK0%2BNgS-HR37g@mail.gmail.com> <20160915112757.50a48498@archlinux.localdomain>
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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 ># ># <file system> <dir> <type> <options> ><dump> <pass> # 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
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