2014-08-08 10:46 GMT-05:00 Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain <dennis.kaptain@xxxxxxxxx> said: >> While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy >> of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will >> consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of >> RAM I suppose you'd never miss it unless you are doing serious video >> editing or something like that. > > There's a lot of misinformation about this. The tmpfs does _not_ > "consume 50% of [your] RAM". The maximum size of a tmpfs defaults to > 50% of RAM, but it only uses space as needed. Also, space used in tmpfs > can be pushed to swap (so if you run low on RAM, files in tmpfs will be > pushed out to swap on disk to free up RAM for programs). > > -- > Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> > -- Thanks for clearing that up Chris. It still doesn't seem like an ideal way to handle /tmp when I have a perfectly good partition and swapping is a major performance killer. I'd rather disk access wait time is caused by accessing /tmp when I need to rather than swapping tmpfs in and out for a program. Is there a way to totally disable tmpfs and keep / read-write? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
