From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 05:54:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_n7CjahW-NQa3L3UBH06M5E2MsjNW8uUnhiL19TGRbGpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170524094314.GB2656@anonymous>
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:43 AM, <gentoo-user@c-14.de> wrote:
> On 17-05-24 at 05:34, Rich Freeman wrote:
> [..]
>> Others have mentioned zram. I've used it, but unless something has
>> changed one of its limitations is that it can't give up memory. That
>> is less of an issue if you're using swap since it can be swapped out
>> if idle. However, if you're not using swap then you're potentially
>> giving up a chunk of RAM to do it, though less RAM than a tmpfs if it
>> is full most of the time (which I doubt is typically the case).
> Seems to work fine here (with kernels newer than the late 3.x when I started using zram):
>
Thanks. Useful to know. Perhaps something changed. Then again, I
don't think I actually tested it so it could have also been
misinformation somewhere.
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-24 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-24 5:16 [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-24 5:34 ` gentoo-user
2017-05-24 6:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 17:05 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 18:46 ` [gentoo-user] Puzzled by zswap [Was: tmp on tmpfs] Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-25 19:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-05-26 6:00 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 18:34 ` [gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-24 19:30 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24 21:16 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-24 22:40 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 6:34 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 11:04 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 12:23 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 14:16 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 16:06 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 16:28 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 16:41 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 3:38 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 7:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 3:36 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 17:00 ` [gentoo-user] " R0b0t1
2017-05-24 6:03 ` Andrew Tselischev
2017-05-24 9:34 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24 9:43 ` gentoo-user
2017-05-24 9:54 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2017-05-24 12:45 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-25 4:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-05-25 7:24 ` Mick
2017-05-25 15:46 ` Martin Vaeth
2017-05-25 22:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Kent Fredric
2017-05-28 10:07 ` Mick
2017-05-31 0:36 ` Kent Fredric
2017-05-31 7:33 ` Mick
2017-05-24 18:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-29 11:09 [gentoo-user] Kernel did not finding root partition Raphael MD
2017-05-29 11:19 ` Rasmus Thomsen
2017-05-29 17:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-05-29 18:07 ` Raphael MD
2017-05-29 18:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-05-29 19:42 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-30 8:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-05-30 17:08 ` Raphael MD
2017-05-30 18:05 ` Mick
2017-05-30 19:28 ` Kai Krakow
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