On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:15, Anahata wrote: > 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. I don't think this would be the case with a gig of ram, which is usually 300 - 500 meg of disk cache. > Using tmpfs lets the system decide dynamically the > balance of disk usage between tempfs and swap, which may give better > results. Just tried using tmfs instead of ramfs, and it doesn't seem to make a difference. bye John
