On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:32:16AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > >> Putting syslog on tmpfs by default and limiting the total size to something >> like 5MB would be something to evaluate for the default desktop. > > I looked into this, and we're not actually doing too badly - our syslogd > doesn't fsync() after every log entry. I'm broadly in favour of using > tmpfs, though. There's an argument that certain priorities probably want > to stay on disk, but otherwise we can simply sync the tmpfs to disk on > shutdown or reboot. Yeah that's just what we need, more VM pressure. My 1.25gb machine isn't swapping enough as it is. (Thanks to Firefox!) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
