* Wouter Verhelst (wou...@debian.org) [120607 16:06]: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +0300, Serge wrote: > > 2012/6/1 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > So tmpfs would basically never be used despite the benefits. > > > > Well, nobody named the benefits yet. > > - It speeds things up, especially on systems with loads of RAM and no > swapspace: whenever there's a possibility of disk access, no matter > how remote, you risk slowing things down due to that disk access. > Reducing disk access for things that don't need to be stored forever > is *good*.
For example, at least one debian buildd runs all the builds completly in a ramdisk. Why not? Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120607150639.gw2...@mails.so.argh.org
