Michael McNulty wrote: > --- 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Could you please use regular reply option? I can now see 3 separate threads with the same name,and they are only your thread(s). Thanks -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
