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.
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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

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