Paul Hardcastle wrote: > Hey Brad, > > Thanks foir the correction - been carrying that missinterpretation for 8 > years.... > > Never used 'free' - neater than 'more /proc/meminfo' that I've been > using to see how much ram has been used up. >
/proc/meminfo is for real men. Free is the quiche eaters version, but I wasn't sure what category the average readership was in ;) /tmp as tmpfs is a neat one I've been using for a while. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep /tmp /etc/fstab none /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=768M 0 0 The size parameter is not required, It defaults to half your ram. I left that there from when this laptop only had a gig in it. Now it's got 1.5G it's kinda redundant. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h | grep /tmp none 768M 27M 742M 4% /tmp This way, none of the stuff I use tmp for ever hits the disk, and it's automatically cleaned out when I reboot (which is pretty much never these days). On my server, with 2GB of tmpfs I can concatenate .avi's, do kernel compiles and all sorts of fun stuff. It's shedloads faster than working from disk. Just remember to delete your working trees afterwards or it'll hit the disk as swap at some point. On another completely different note. Does anyone know where I can get a couple of 512M PC100/133 standard SDRAM SIMMs from? Got an old Mac PPC here I need to juice up. Willing to swap some 512M PC3200 DDR simms in exchange if someone's got some lying around. -- Dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks they can train Americans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish.
