On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:21:25PM +0200, John Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:09, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > I have mine at /mnt/ramfs, with jack thusly configured. I read somewhere > that ramfs is purely memory based, whereas tmpfs can use disk as backup > if it needs to expand. > Does ramfs create a preallocated fixed size ramdisk? If so, this will reduce your available memory and thus may increase the swap partition usage. Using tmpfs lets the system decide dynamically the balance of disk usage between tempfs and swap, which may give better results. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: 01638 720444 http://www.treewind.co.uk Mob: 07976 263827
