From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 13:55:03 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 F0EE7BDB180 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:55:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm13-vm9.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm13-vm9.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.188]) (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 6EBD6109 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:55:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1473947575; bh=4BdBmt0/ysmBHvKPK4ImuUJuIJ+aQ/B8rYDOasXOCdw=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=rQxYnZ1PWVfBQet//k7wLB9hpDh5jTU/ooltQPtZA/KeAgTjAELEU8UGyy6TFUJg5Nn1l5iOoHsivwe3+kBnXEhpkB6yrFmMgONNf7KC5qukbZcWJkisXOzmkgNl0W2zupUbdMcVjGIP8SOWaFU0VHxj5dvcFb/129cwtO6zpc5eoAQ2UfW5BOuLtHhrM7SFh9dub249I+4Qi1+2kcBbqI9xiTcmZLMTD696LDvW+zZLs/KEWVfzJ9qlp9y92TJV/U4/oqNhGJ7OosZ8rZH1BN6ejH7o9eVF04XDsHNIEvuZNnTqOMs6pDPtTVhY5YB1XrPzuqtImVsuUWb8NaZ9Vg== Received: from [212.82.98.57] by nm13.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 13:52:55 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.70] by tm10.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 13:52:55 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp107.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 13:52:55 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 376000.92274.bm@smtp107.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: T13TxVgVM1nLrWd985I1I9Eoj8IY2SYUxSVWlMyyGxaLoM2 AYh2Dp540ArgpZ0yH_sAORth5fy2BAFIwQy2d81bSts0ESVJlAaKoO8_lRGa T3suoD3pd4dYsQpyGzcFqQurWTqlsNmDEADG4M0ELZ7kRDRONAblLOG6kLL7 o9XCuG3kP.qsifkdDeBEGwTszCySB6b41YDHYzEVtPlXwHbaox.gK2RcA3Yw 1AaIvkqp45WCEffTBSR1Kx5ALHKJ0AXReL6mx3gdxrk1Yq_Ll44YiNsMo.ck Z_4VEzpGxw8BLieKtFTPWnkpwtnby5t9fb2OmAqH.EKZ77WH0AUh0gy7FBQA 3z7vjxjwy.0Qx3iLOObc4vGfpct88Upugow4hEVzLUjMOoa9MaaFC2iGqRTv W5qchJ9g.meB1lyGScEe_CNgK49otafkiPGA.hEkgYFOUMOCfMMIeqhyGwHA SHLDO1bV7lVbT60W1vKaVxFjNjNtmoPnH2zypAluexwIjt79Rvb0_JyoCXhq YTwCDLejccAiR.0IQ115Hl8qU2zZtGjc3uwsVpeCSrMINW46LGSmLVXWX8.n 0sdlYhNz1Z4qHIHcp3LfW89.gkI.c X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:52:54 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915155254.768f6f70@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160915140856.24af27ca@gumby.homeunix.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> <20160915140856.24af27ca@gumby.homeunix.com> 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 13:55:04 -0000 On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:08:56 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >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. That might be true, but not necessarily is true. If the handling would be that good, then I wonder why on Linux the default without an fstab entry usually is half of the RAM and not the complete RAM. The handling might or might not be better on FreeBSD. Regards, Ralf