On 24 July 2013 23:27, Chris Moline <blackredtree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I have 7 GiB of ram but I'm only using 300 MiB, so I thought I > would put stuff into it to speed up my system. I installed > anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. Is there a tool > that can tell which dirs are being used the most? I'd rather not guess > and benchmark, I don't have the patience for that. What are common > dirs that would benefit from being in ram? Hi Chris, I typically mount my /tmp to a tmpfs, since it is really only temporary, that way I can avoid writes to my hard drive. I've also seen people mount their mozilla profiles to tmpfs for speedups in firefox. Otherwise I have a large 'scratch' space I use for my bioinformatics research, typically I have a tmpfs on our servers arount 12gigs. If you are doing a lot of temporary reading and writing, that might be worth looking into. Calvin Morrison
