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Post subject: /tmp to ram?
 Posted: 02.02.2011, 10:30
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I read about that it is possible to mount your /tmp in the ram.
Does someone know if that makes sense and if how would I do that best. |
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Post subject: RE: /tmp to ram?
Posted: 02.02.2011, 10:55
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Its pretty easy, you just need to add a line to /etc/fstab, but if its really beneficial depends on if you use (and how you use) /tmp. I doubt it has a practical gain for the "normal" user (but define "normal" now…)…
As always, there isn't a magical trick making a computer twice as fast - beside inserting new hardware maybe…
I do a lot of compiling on /tmp for example which is quiet handy from time to time as fileaccess is obviously a bit faster, but most of the time for the reason that i don't need to clean up after me as its magically auto-deleted. |
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Posted: 02.02.2011, 11:29
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Posted: 02.02.2011, 11:37
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tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
is not enougth
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tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
mounts /tmp to ramdisk |
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Posted: 02.02.2011, 23:25
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one ore question. what happens if I burn an 4gb dvd which creates an image in /tmp.
will that use up all my 4gb of ram? |
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Posted: 02.02.2011, 23:46
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...keep in mind that regular use cases usually imply that you need at the very least enough space to store a DVD ISO image in /tmp/ and /var/tmp/, which amounts to >>4.5 GB RAM (and/ or nice little games with overcommiting through swap, but do you really want to swap just for stuff in /tmp/...?). Yes, there are use cases to use tmpfs for temporary data storage, but you should really know what you want to accomplish - and why - before considering this.
Hint, a current generation SSD is not really a reason for this. |
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Posted: 03.02.2011, 00:05
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slh wrote:
Hint, a current generation SSD is not really a reason for this.
OK, this is based on the r/w capability of the modern SSD, but how do you trade that against large memory availability? If there is 6GB or 8GB of memory available, there is no problem saving an ISO image in tmpfs. |
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Posted: 03.02.2011, 09:24
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ok but I could tell my system to use only a certain amount of ram right?
The fstab would look like that right?
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=1200M,mode=1777 0 0 |
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Posted: 03.02.2011, 11:48
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For 1 million write cycles life , a SSD will last for 10 years with about 274 writes per day.
I had not noticed this, SSDs are surely going to replace hard disks.
Thanks slh for the hint. It is a very very useful hint.
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