Hi, First of all sorry for the long delay and thanks for the constructive feedback. I've made some additions to the Wiki article ( http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/TmpOnTmpfs ): -Added the 'Practical details' section to explain how tmpfs, swap and memory relate. -Added a 'Pitfalls' section to warn people of an (IMHO) somewhat misguided piece of advice in the official documentation and maybe some other pitfalls when I think of them. About ramdisks; I will add something later about how tmpfs relates to other ramdisk implementations like cramfs and squashfs. But I haven't done much with the former two so I will need to research those a bit before I can write something down. I'm not the best writer on this continent (Shakespeare beat me by half a point, but I suspect foul play ;-) but I think I've made some steps in the right direction with the article. Please let me know what you think and where I should make some additional improvements. Regards, Jasper On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 14:38 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jasper Siepkes <jasper at siepkes.nl> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've made a first attempt at writing the tmpfs CentOS Tips and tricks item > > and I'm looking for some feedback. Does it need more (or less) background > > info ? Or more (or less) substance perhaps ? > > > > Regards, > > Jasper > > > > I'd like to see more info on things like: > - What is the relationship with swap? > - How/when does swap get used instead of RAM? > - How do I determine the size of RAM to use? > - What impact does using 100% of RAM have on the active memory in the system? > - What happens if all system RAM is full, and tmpfs is also full? > > I think your doc is a good start, but as of now it's got the same info > as all the other tmpfs docs out there, and they don't go into much > detail about the real impact on a system when using tmpfs. > > Tmpfs is billed as a more sophisticated ramdisk, so docs addressing it > should go into the details of what makes it better. A simple ramdisk > just allocates a chunk of RAM, so why is tmpfs better? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
