Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:08:14 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915190814.346f753d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20160915172446.7b018b87@archlinux.localdomain> 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> <20160915172446.7b018b87@archlinux.localdomain>
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:24:46 +0200 Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > 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 ... I don't know why your particular system didn't swap, but that's not true in general, e.g.: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt "tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap unneeded pages out to swap space."
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