9 Feb
2011
9 Feb
'11
9:44 a.m.
----- "Jeremy Jongepier" <jeremy(a)autostatic.com> wrote:
Thanks for the reply Paul. But what about other
applications that use
/tmp? Could they benefit from a /tmp directory mounted on a tmpfs
filesystem?
no access to disk, so you may win.
On the other hand you squat some RAM for a file system,
so you may end up with swapping anyway.
So answer is: it depends. On what you do. On your computer
(amount of RAM).
You clearly win if the programs you run do a lot of little I/O
in /tmp and don't smoke too much memory for other things.