[LAU] Mounting /tmp to tmpfs

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Feb 8 22:45:09 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:
> LS,
>
> Does mounting /tmp to tmpfs really yield a tangible performance gain when it
> comes to setting up a real-time low latency environment?

no, but putting JACK's tmpdir on a tmpfs filesystem does.

current versions of JACK use /dev/shm as the location for this, no
/tmp (this was done years ago).

--p


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