* Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?
@ 2011-12-30 14:11 99% ` Peter Humphrey
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From: Peter Humphrey @ 2011-12-30 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Friday 30 December 2011 14:02:46 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On 12/30/2011 07:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> > Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB.
> > What do you have for mount options in fstab?
>
> You can set the size with size=XXXX parameter. For example I have mine
> set to 10G:
>
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=10G 0 0
>
> It is shared memory, so that 10G is not actually used unless it is...
> well, actually used. :)
...and you can set the size to be more than the RAM you have; any used
excess gets swapped out.
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Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
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