Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:08:56 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915140856.24af27ca@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOyJeZTzo4Kh9OaKQk6_-6qB8imHbGGMgT53DNK0%2BNgS-HR37g@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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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 There's no such thing, you can specify the maximum size of a tmpfs, but not how much is kept in RAM. It doesn't matter though, because the VM system will handle it better than a simple limit.
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