Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:14:10 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160915161410.37d74842@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20160915145223.1539a56e0f8ae601a914340d@sohara.org> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <20160914120349.76a015cd@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160914175449.185d12b0@archlinux.localdomain> <20160914221954.00fb1d56@gumby.homeunix.com> <20160915013848.5564c238@archlinux.localdomain> <CAOyJeZTzo4Kh9OaKQk6_-6qB8imHbGGMgT53DNK0%2BNgS-HR37g@mail.gmail.com> <20160915140856.24af27ca@gumby.homeunix.com> <CAOyJeZRF5CK3hxVb3J=hxG550eppF779wC8VE5Q-bhZmU=O=EA@mail.gmail.com> <20160915145223.1539a56e0f8ae601a914340d@sohara.org>
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:52:23 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >IOW if you have a tmpfs half the size of your memory that isn't too >busy and processes keeping most of your memory busy then likely you'll >find tmpfs data swapped out. Ok, so this works on FreeBSD. However, on Linux the swap is not used if the size is half of the RAM and I wonder how it is handled by other operating systems that are or at least are similar as UNIX/POSIX alike systems. Regards, Ralf
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