--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nichols <rnicholsnos...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Perhaps by not storing so much stuff in it?  That, or
> adding more RAM. Seriously, if you're going to fill up a large portion of
> your available memory with a ramdisk, demands for memory are going to have
> to be met by pushing pages out to swap space.  By default, a
> ramdisk can grow to up to half of the available RAM after the kernel has been
> loaded.  If programs and I/O buffers need more than the other memory
> you have available, what option is there besides swap?
> 

Actually I am not storing too much stuff in it since there is plenty of free 
memory. That was the point of my earlier posts asking why swap when there is 
plenty of free memory. 

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe behavior is unused files in /dev/shm 
use swap space? I want to make it so it does not do that since it slows the 
system down 
and since there is plenty of available free memory.
                                          
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