Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is /dev/shm needed? | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:37:34 +0100 | From | Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <> |
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Hello Adam :))
>> have lots of memory to spare, give it a try. Mount /tmp or all of /var >> in tmpfs. >Unfortunately, some(many?) distros are b0rken in re /var/. There is >stuff put there that is needed across boots (for example, mandrake >puts the DNS master files in /var/named.)
Moreover, didn't the LHS say that /var/tmp is supposed to be maintained across reboots? I'm not sure about this, but anyway /var is supposed to hold temporary data, not boot-throwable data, isn't it?
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