From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 15 14:17:38 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 8B999BDB855 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm29-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm29-vm8.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.77]) (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 08466221 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1473948850; bh=b4Z0hXTftkuDUZqNihyyWKKoLZ3FNIHrOQBI13iQ0FQ=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=La+WmZ5l94tA3c9xpfOX4eah72WS3WxVgwIAS3zC2gzHB9SfJnWPsdAHnLCYrzz8ZsNiKKiblRsmYnOmvHuArviChEl6E4FoFt/DQP0v+JCtuC0uHMyOYhW9b8tA/stT+vty22VWDYNWGicWr/WvGZ38OIKX+gTV4f+tAgtraVLrGz7XTse6AizYoXIhDW5f4bggVz5RnM0WCUHsyYBgpHOU0Q3qFo0NgPkBC4WYiZmyvY8Rxruw8alq3k3HDGu4/+cydDwTJZv0gLF4uGdFJ5CUSgkcIVF3Kd4dnPvdJC0Y+mpVlZmAu08ZHY9g0SVV6dKyWath4DWvbwBdeskMzA== Received: from [212.82.98.127] by nm29.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 14:14:10 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.91] by tm20.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 14:14:10 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp128.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2016 14:14:10 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 887393.45447.bm@smtp128.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: wB4uqtEVM1lSEmZY3LLrWfpdPsrDIblL61Y3VwAwOvVSCAb 3qV2_xVqWxpg8bO8JrJ7Db87eNnW0iX_HTiYj6TrnMj7unVNFNJ1P6X_0Tny qj7b422zXCl9FqAvUxQrZeWZFYdgQ_ORPmoZcssIhJwB0l8Zt3DtHPYMF2tS uFmA7vHxSd_eZSkCwDqmQ_4Ht3etP4JFkq.DHF3tue8srxpANTxeiLTFI_mt ECTbMr7KxBfzBF62kHp_a4s5DZlUGA7NDIxsxmI92elSds7z_ogIde0lGxx0 uqVkVXbS7OJ5yK3etvu213X.F8rDzlFYCBuqF2a_8iCPQmCdHncQXwRDA.Kb QE.G38myD5PqTZ.0Ar6QsTvLcx1Fo7SdHXkt4zoIht_wS5rzg0aiGDMkLcZy FgPpomvBO.rFhMlSZhIlBbFLOa7KXzrXlNZsDJh2iQwJzNfk3dXm4wcSZHlr w3I89gSdhYyB0Fnp0zHJ0mZegmTQY.0XWzwn5MpN2R22XS0oHpp_94AzqGle m3ehecvdpf.7Al6z0EeyYD.FZ_DqGXp10DiKqfHT5Ke4.IMLJupoduJ2cTRK 7R_fCTDj1o93SHTN7oTn2MVu7_ZrO X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:14:10 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915161410.37d74842@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160915145223.1539a56e0f8ae601a914340d@sohara.org> 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> <20160915145223.1539a56e0f8ae601a914340d@sohara.org> 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 14:17:38 -0000 On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:52:23 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >IOW if you have a tmpfs half the size of your memory that isn't too >busy and processes keeping most of your memory busy then likely you'll >find tmpfs data swapped out. Ok, so this works on FreeBSD. However, on Linux the swap is not used if the size is half of the RAM and I wonder how it is handled by other operating systems that are or at least are similar as UNIX/POSIX alike systems. Regards, Ralf