Messages in this thread | | | From | "Robert White" <> | Subject | RE: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2003 18:54:27 -0800 |
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This (using swap as part of the tmpfs type system) is what happens on a Sun. I was disappointed (surprised even) in the Linux implementations because mounting a truly temporary /tmp was what I wanted it for.
I would like to see a tmpfs (swapfs?) that did presume that files not in use (lately?) would migrate out of my valuable RAM and onto the super-cheap swap device.
IMHO of course.
Rob.
-----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Christoph Rohland Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:28 AM To: tomlins@cam.org Cc: CaT; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
Hi Ed,
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > What does tmpfs have to do with ram size? Its swappable. This > _might_ be useful for ramfs but for tmpfs, IMHO, its not a good > idea.
I agree and I think if you add this option it should adjust to a percentage of (ram + swap). With this it would be a really nice improvement. I even had patches for this but to do it efficently you would need to add some hooks to swapon and swapoff.
Greetings Christoph
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