Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:07:31 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md, mount_mfs and swap Message-ID: <20080604010731.3de6d359@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <92E18C61-A552-4B36-AF81-6790E7A340D3@vindaloo.com> References: <92E18C61-A552-4B36-AF81-6790E7A340D3@vindaloo.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:43:27 -0400 Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote: > I've recently started playing with NetBSD and notice that by default > it mounts /tmp as an MFS backed by swap. A quick read of the md, > mount_mfs man page would lead me to believe that > > md /tmp rw,async,-s1024m 0 0 > > will move my /tmp dir to a swap backed 1G space. This would make me > feel much more comfortable about my continuing adherence to the > practice of giving my machine twice as much swap space as they have > memory. > > Are there any downsides to this? > Not in my experience. You can do it simply by adding the following to rc.conf tmpmfs="YES" tmpsize="1024m"
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