Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:32:29 +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: <20160915113229.7e4e43f3@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160915112757.50a48498@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> <20160915112757.50a48498@archlinux.localdomain>
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:27:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:36:04 +0100, Shamim Shahriar wrote:
>>On 15 Sep 2016 00:39, "Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions" <
>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:19:54 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions
>>> wrote:
>>> >IIRC with 4 GiB RAM you can have up to 16 GiB of swap, so you could
>>> >support up to about 19 GiB of tmpfs if you want.
>>>
>>> Ok, but I guess than tmpfs could use the whole memory and cause
>>> issues with other software running at the same time. It would be
>>> nice, if here would be a possibility to assign 3 GiB of 4 GiB to
>>> tmpfs and if the 3 GiB are reached swap should be used. Perhaps it
>>> does exist, I might be just to lazy to find out.
>>>
>>
>>Yes it does, and yes you are :P
>>man fstab
>
>I will take a look at freebsd man fstab soon. However, on Linux it
>doesn't work if I have much swap and comment out the fstab line ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
This should red "uncomment" :D.
>
>[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
>#
># /etc/fstab: static file system information
>#
># <file system> <dir> <type> <options>
><dump> <pass> # UUID=f386221b-fc9c-434b-b4e7-b3b1b97be8aa
>LABEL=archlinux /dev/sda9 / ext3
>rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
>
># UUID=3e19b702-30ed-4574-91d7-1594fad71842
>/dev/sdb7 none swap defaults 0 0
>
># UUID=4b65ccbf-2219-4734-98fa-16c58d4f60fa
>#/dev/sda10 none swap defaults,pri=-2 0 0
>/dev/sda10 none swap defaults 0 0
>
>#/dev/sda11 /mnt/music ext3
>noatime,defaults 0 2
>#/dev/sdb12 /home/music ext4
>noatime,defaults 0
>2 /dev/sda11 /mnt/music ext3
>defaults,noatime 0
>2 /dev/sdb12 /home/music ext4
>defaults,noatime 0 2
>
>#tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G 0 0
>
>... and on Linux man fstab isn't very helpful. Btw. the default on
>Linux is half of the RAM, in my case 1.9 GiB, even without the fstab
>line.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf
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