Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:27:42 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: What is the limit size of tmpfs /dev/shm ? |
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Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Don't forget that tmpfs overflows into swap, so you could save money > by adding adding more swap and cutting down on the RAM: though of > course that will perform very poorly once it's actually using the > swap, probably not the direction you want to go in. >
It can still outperform conventional disk filesystems, however, mostly because it doesn't have to worry one iota about consistency.
-hpa
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