On 18/05/10 07:02, Jeff Squyres wrote: > What's the advantage of /dev/shm? (I don't know anything > about /dev/shm)
Looking at our CentOS 5.4 install /dev/shm is a tmpfs filesystem (defaults to use up to 1/2 RAM of the system) and hence should give lightning fast file I/O. More info here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Tmpfs cheers! Chris -- Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/
