From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37073139694 for ; Wed, 24 May 2017 09:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73A4921C202; Wed, 24 May 2017 09:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-x243.google.com (mail-yw0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 096BA21C1BC for ; Wed, 24 May 2017 09:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-x243.google.com with SMTP id h82so12503792ywb.3 for ; Wed, 24 May 2017 02:54:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=hlZuuEnfCywICZIYtUAl+0taoD9MqSgRkTYbfUJDBXk=; b=h92i4oEzAHzLpugP3bDynOsSyFZx/SEh7YJ4Ah3uP1vcUjmz35KaX7xGqxakm+Jlhx yeTwpKWuYsiLHfzgF42zY5N3R0OupmGRQ9wPfB5h1hVND4Pj3u1ghl55Z/b6yUpBuegX FKHwCYl6uN5y06P9Tl/RhW8X8euJf1H2CGHX2yMveHXJUOY7nDGGxUhYHm2M/CW9UvUa fz8bCmn5qd9EcCIQ5ioegcC7GgxlAwx/IlHnwPhn7VGP8/Sq7TZwAQsYu9mG5HbSecXr xOMEGotApZwr0o01o1kzPP7P5ZAhtH5KJzl+HrOrRSrzwyeXyJRwfatOZyL+2uujmeeM oagA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=hlZuuEnfCywICZIYtUAl+0taoD9MqSgRkTYbfUJDBXk=; b=BgQuhFfFCH+0WhM/63otxC5hf+avb6AaNMXZ0ADFKkIKi3thAjEpzG8R9GESCjGYEE Tjp1tHLHYqTLafj7oJ34GOsB8A+cd09MA8PGdhxdJrJxo3G8Zu2uwZa8SAleR2dHNIjg kt/sU6sNFtrv2+5ZAZ/f/qAroW1Chp0sDCt2Wc4kb9G2ad+zJT52ugGTdyY5nwQD3aZh Dg2NOuY5HO3TRLizWfwm3bo0Rbgoao7EhjnRDFRB3T5sf9Q5DjXhjQQJnpVB+/fZ8hMI SFCBF32eCI+YswGEFypHRB3Wtf7k/j8jz/aCq+EQ5WA6YcS54C0dPb9/itTqRSTwLPz/ 98sQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcBaxUx8fL0G4ySRYebkRo8hd6jH6UbS/VUoWJIK0QmhkBuBZbjl mCh27pRyi9hlYhOYGzZzFMddRUkdFZOI X-Received: by 10.129.174.5 with SMTP id m5mr26226341ywh.272.1495619657199; Wed, 24 May 2017 02:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.129.131.8 with HTTP; Wed, 24 May 2017 02:54:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170524094314.GB2656@anonymous> References: <20170524051002.12325.12B52329@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170524094314.GB2656@anonymous> From: Rich Freeman Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 05:54:16 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4Y1428fKQAy8ECjbEQn40gq9AW0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 12602265-f2ac-452c-a01f-533e67ba26c6 X-Archives-Hash: 3ea0fd71c107d24acf1a4563635f952c On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:43 AM, 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