Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:24:46 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915172446.7b018b87@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160915161026.62dffff7@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> <CAOyJeZTzo4Kh9OaKQk6_-6qB8imHbGGMgT53DNK0%2BNgS-HR37g@mail.gmail.com> <20160915140856.24af27ca@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160915155254.768f6f70@archlinux.localdomain> <20160915161026.62dffff7@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:10:26 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >The important thing is that everything that can't (or shouldn't) be >discarded has to fit into swap+ram. Most desktops/workstations have >much more memory than they need, in which case you can safely allocate >swap plus most of the ram to tmpfs, if you want to. Ok, I didn't use FreeBSD since a while ago. On my Arch Linux, if the tmpfs is full, swap isn't used, so compiling, resp. building a package fails. However, since the OP worries about hard disk drives and building a lot of software, even if the OP shouldn't have too much RAM, buying new RAM usually isn't that expensive. Regards, Ralfhelp
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