From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 13:09:10 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 7D29FBDB09B for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:09:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-lf0-x229.google.com (mail-lf0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c07::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 157FD364 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:09:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-lf0-x229.google.com with SMTP id u14so35537540lfd.1 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:09:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8BmQj0Lte9nKbsXpZ9a1orVTCwcUd/kkxeM44f4L5kA=; b=kzNtAzDERC+zN99KoQKEPAH2lwsnRyp4a6xBa/32up2tUqDfuTnzHzpoZ+6SxU7z32 9ntkvwyJHwkWPnKlVav+NemUz/OzH/cOwKrsxz9fGg2eJegbwbzwhaiimdTwmmQqbGo1 HXiJdW8J8s+nBfcrYSZ5h1draHQz0Qg5ekZGCOP7Mriz2CcH2mKO4NMkFfb2utaBH+Ty ovV7jw3AtLRki/dD8jaMXEwmcZucKaz7LQ9qBksu+HS/IM713eZjGDu+jgADe8avPYX/ +qKMBLhjYZfwxv2FGVZVj28FdLA9fS1Sd2RL8hmIec6QZ5vdhfmcYiHVS4NZIQ/0AnoV VP0A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8BmQj0Lte9nKbsXpZ9a1orVTCwcUd/kkxeM44f4L5kA=; b=eNUaOqKZR6v74x91vp/hHfGZ2TNTm9WPLqBmyPoQTb0cySyQXmalas7+yPMoYmXR3p bvdQZztu4xf45tSEgxcT4IhGvLRo3eutFrDBc4lAXpW6Z3rayR6rIzF9iShWo9K24X4k q8SaVkdIfPCfigTCut0DtmMP7HNgIYop4uTlJaycqP6Su8yaovVlYRVOuWTrMXu5A3Gk ocUjg4W9fUM1JgMMdg21EbAmdkXtvcffmEoG1OQMBMTK7ke9D25evfoNL/V4Cp6t9IPt 5Ik9UFALTIu8VUGDQJOx24GJ1lZkHle0gaM6qLUI3ku1mo1iCo10TcxFmPto1fpVO7Cj Ht8g== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwMWmCHyvFs0ufRIsG1Vv5BQPmBkJ5RIQblAU+kEk/T57I+Fkrg97lVVjCjFaWBtcg== X-Received: by 10.28.60.2 with SMTP id j2mr3056190wma.46.1473944947257; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([81.17.24.158]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f15sm2397816wmf.8.2016.09.15.06.09.05 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:08:56 +0100 From: RW 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: 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 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3) 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 13:09:10 -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 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.