Re: [tlug] Using TAR

[roy lo <roylo@example.com>]

Was icq-ing with one of my friends and he point this out to me

from the man page:
" Another constraint is that the number of files available  in
      a tmpfs  file  system  is calculated based on the physical
      memory of  the  machine   and  not  the  size  of  the  swap
      device/partition.   If  you  have too many files, tmpfs will
      print a warning message and you will be unable to create new
      files. You cannot increase this limit by adding swap space
"

And he said this is main reason why alot of people still use disk 
partition for /tmp.

Just throught that I would share this with you guys.

and yes he did made fun of me for not knowing this. :<


roy lo wrote:
> Just saw your footnote, I guess you are right in that case. ^_^
> 
> Neverless, using ramdisk for /tmp is quiet a waste of memory.
> 
> I understand that tmpfs is very useful under a requirement for high 
> speed temporary files system. So, some people took the alterntive method 
> of creating another dictory (let's say /memtmp) for direct the specific 
> applications that require high performance.
> 
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> roy lo wrote:
> 
>> Killfiled me? why in the world would you want to do that?  :P
>> sure we have our "differences", but killfiled me is just a overkill.
>>
>> also, FYI in "classic" unix system /tmp wouldn't be on ramdisk
>> (I thought a seasoned SysAdmin like you ought to know that already)
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>> Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
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>>> (I thought I'd killfiled you.  Hmmm, my procmailrc must be borked)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:21:02AM -0800, roy lo wrote:
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>>>
>>>> Err... what happen to your /tmp ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> /tmp should be a ramdisk.
>>>
>>> -- Chris
>>>
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