Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:01:09 -0500, Celejar wrote: I've given up on s2ram, the kernel method (echo mem /sys/power/state) works fine for me, at least with Kernel Mode Setting. I just tried that method. At first, it seemed to work wonderfully -

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-29 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:32:15 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-25 22:44 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:50 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, that's it (compare the output of free before and after hibernating to convince yourself). If

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Celejar: I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have: $ uptime 20:46:09 up 5 days, 5:30, 9 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.25 $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 206517210473121017860

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:49:57 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: ... tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if any) memory. So, unless it is being

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:42:24 +0100 Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Celejar: I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have: $ uptime 20:46:09 up 5 days, 5:30, 9 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.25 $ free total used

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-25 21:03 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:49:57 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: ... tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:35:41 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-25 21:03 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:49:57 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600 Boyd Stephen

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-25 21:48 +0100, Celejar wrote: You're right; I see now that 'free' reports only 317376 free. This is a laptop, and I do hibernate it a couple of times a day, so I suppose that the cache(s) are thrown away to use the RAM for hibernation (and to avoid pointlessly saving cached disk

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:50 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-25 21:48 +0100, Celejar wrote: You're right; I see now that 'free' reports only 317376 free. This is a laptop, and I do hibernate it a couple of times a day, so I suppose that the cache(s) are thrown away

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-25 22:44 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:50 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, that's it (compare the output of free before and after hibernating to convince yourself). If you don't want to get your cache blown away, use suspend (to RAM) rather than

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 05:47 -0800, kellyremo wrote: to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advantages: - Memory is way

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread teddieeb
Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is heavily used by your system, it will be cached in memory anyway. With 4 GB of RAM (as mentioned by kellyremo), you'll end with probably your

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 821513319-1295910389-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-57593962- @bda029.bisx.prod.on.blackberry, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is heavily used

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: ... tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if any) memory. So, unless it is being actively used by files in the tmpfs, it can be used by other applications. I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: ... tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if any) memory. So, unless it is being actively used by files in the tmpfs, it can be used by other applications. I'm

putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread kellyremo
to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advantages: - Memory is way faster then HDD/SSD, so it could speed things up - SSD

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Informatik.hu
hey, i am also intertested... :) On 2011.01.23. 14:47, kellyremo wrote: to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advantages:

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, kellyremo wrote: to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? tmpfs /tmptmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=1G In squeeze,

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 01. 2011 15:08:27 je Henrique de Moraes Holschuh napisal(a): On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, kellyremo wrote: to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? tmpfs

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 23 ian 11, 15:46:20, Klistvud wrote: Any opinions? No, just facts ;) $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 20596521847748 211904 0 153008 885512 -/+ buffers/cache: 8092281250424 Swap: 975204

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Klistvud a écrit : Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is heavily used by your system, it will be cached in memory anyway. With 4 GB of RAM (as mentioned by kellyremo), you'll

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 01. 2011 17:19:41 je Pascal Hambourg napisal(a): Tmpfs is not a RAM disk (RAM-based block device), it is a filesystem in virtual memory. Didn't know that. Damn clever. I stand corrected. -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Karl Vogel
Dne, 23. 01. 2011 17:19:41 je Pascal Hambourg napisal(a): P Tmpfs is not a RAM disk (RAM-based block device), it is a filesystem in P virtual memory. On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:39:36 +0100, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr said: K Didn't know that. Damn clever. I stand corrected.

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-23 Thread Michael Osburn
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 05:47 -0800, kellyremo wrote: to memory means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], and put the /tmp on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write in the /etc/fstab? I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: Advantages: - Memory is way