Re: Is /dev/shm needed?

From: Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 03:34:04 EST


Hi Raúl,

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, RaXl NXXez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
>>When one of these gets full I can either stop the affending job or
>>increase the limit
>
> That's one of my doubts: if the available RAM decreases then the
> buffer (disk) cache will do too. So, if I have /tmp mounted with
> tmpfs, the contents here will be cached no matter the available RAM,
> or am I completely wrong?

No, it will be swapped out.

Greetings
                Christoph

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