From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 21:13:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F3D106564A for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E9D8FC16 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so4349635wwf.31 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:13:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=uOz+FHu2H8X5tVr4BtxZvXCfVhTSYZQfPFd8t7tKbzY=; b=ViYNJ0rnpDVTwX+jUqxmsrJ8LvzJSXRZEXV3R9YfuryEic0o+14cy5wdPE4guzwKTd QKM/ZfT9XlykcLon8AsWAwre8PEmkx17jJT1+xS96yUTN2R0DsNaM63d4USXS45GU7Bp gN9OE/Db3r7OVKdVxKuWvKga+VcEytwq7SSyk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=k8Ht1fTO+Y8b2swbAqGabfqIatFs+Wc6ATVOUJyUpUB/wMUwpCT/d9GjG1wRFvk2wM W+uqehcyWCPWMwII+O8l592DyzbCtlZCw3ukHRQZU28GtGQMbdU4JlnOdMz/VJuhEzWA GDimKBZQMD6/uoW5EA713PCtveKpo0Bc1t4QQ= Received: by 10.227.183.198 with SMTP id ch6mr4992084wbb.227.1295902032622; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.dg (41-132-25-222.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.132.25.222]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m13sm9573045wbz.9.2011.01.24.12.47.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:47:11 -0800 (PST) From: David Naylor To: FreeBSD Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:46:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.5.4; amd64; ; ) References: <12db3210cd2.-2509072410058136592.-3952788888916668261@zoho.com> <20110124121821.107c2061@gumby.homeunix.com> <20110124075205.4632d037@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20110124075205.4632d037@scorpio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1481622.SUHsuLPYD3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101242247.01839.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Subject: Re: putting "/tmp" to memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:13:58 -0000 --nextPart1481622.SUHsuLPYD3 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 24 January 2011 14:52:05 Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 +0000 >=20 > RW articulated: > > I have > >=20 > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=3D4280000000 > >=20 > > I would suggest you don't use tmpmfs=3D"YES" in rc.conf unless you are > > being very conservative with a production server. tmpfs is nominally > > experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more > > memory efficient than md devices. >=20 > On a FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE, I have the following: >=20 > cat /etc/fstab | grep -i "tmpfs" > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,mode=3D01777 0 0 >=20 > It works very well and I have not noticed any problems whatsoever. I have noticed that editors/openoffice.org-3 will fail to build if /tmp is= =20 tmpfs. Other than that it has been stable for me. =20 --nextPart1481622.SUHsuLPYD3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAk095UUACgkQUaaFgP9pFrIoAQCeI6FyEvNJPf0mB3OyooUPmuH6 4+8An1Mg/ueCfDpBB56PNyHwEvLyUxGg =Eu77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1481622.SUHsuLPYD3--