30 Sep
2003
30 Sep
'03
4:55 a.m.
Tuesday 30 September 2003 08.23 skrev Rocco:
I would really recommend that people use tmpfs for /tmp (mounts /tmp in
ram). I googled "tmpfs" and there were some very good articles out there.
I've been meaning to pose this question for a while, so maybe this is a
good time to do it. Am I the only one out there that has their "Record
Directory" mounted as a tmpfs? I went out and bought a half a gig of ram
and brought my ram up to over 700 Megs of Ram. Now I just move all my
audio files into the "Record Directory" (in other words, in Ram) and
record out of that. Of course, I periodically copy the newly recorded
file to the hard drive.
The only thing is... I can't vouch for this approach because I havn't
had more than 2 (sterio 48000) wavs playing and 1 sterio 48000 wav being
recorded to at the same time. But there hasn't been so much as one
hiccup. But I guess the reason I haven't mentioned about this approach
is because I've (many times before) thought I stumbled on to something
great, only to find out that it wasn't as good as it looked on the
outside. But I have the feeling I'm going to keep getting good
performance from this meathod. And with the price of Ram these days,
it's an affordable approach.
Yeah, if you got the ram this should be pretty good.
I'm wondering about the size of the partition though.
I've heard that tmpfs is dynamically resized. With this kind of approach,
wouldn't it be a good idea if it was possible to set the partition to a
specific size? This to avoid putting to much in the partition and causing the
machine to start swapping.
Or is it already possible to specify a size for tmpfs partitions?
/Robert
I am trying to setup my new laptop to be a very
friendly
environment for multimedia editing and software
Currently I use:
tmpfs for /tmp
The /tmp setting makes much more of a difference than anything else
though...