Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:46:58 +0200 From: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: putting "/tmp" to memory Message-ID: <201101242247.01839.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110124075205.4632d037@scorpio> References: <12db3210cd2.-2509072410058136592.-3952788888916668261@zoho.com> <20110124121821.107c2061@gumby.homeunix.com> <20110124075205.4632d037@scorpio>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 24 January 2011 14:52:05 Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 +0000 > > RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> articulated: > > I have > > > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=4280000000 > > > > I would suggest you don't use tmpmfs="YES" in rc.conf unless you are > > being very conservative with a production server. tmpfs is nominally > > experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more > > memory efficient than md devices. > > On a FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE, I have the following: > > cat /etc/fstab | grep -i "tmpfs" > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,mode=01777 0 0 > > It works very well and I have not noticed any problems whatsoever. I have noticed that editors/openoffice.org-3 will fail to build if /tmp is tmpfs. Other than that it has been stable for me. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAk095UUACgkQUaaFgP9pFrIoAQCeI6FyEvNJPf0mB3OyooUPmuH6 4+8An1Mg/ueCfDpBB56PNyHwEvLyUxGg =Eu77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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