Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!nlm-mcs!ncifcrf!elsie!cvl!eneevax!mimsy!sjr From: sjr@mimsy.UUCP (Stephen J. Roznowski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: RAM disk as /dev/swap Message-ID: <9670@mimsy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 22:03:34 EST Article-I.D.: mimsy.9670 Posted: Mon Dec 7 22:03:34 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 09:07:32 EST References: <10707@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: sjr@mimsy.UUCP (Stephen J. Roznowski) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 21 In article <10707@brl-adm.ARPA> jason@violet.Berkeley.EDU (Jason Venner) writes: > >It is my recollection (from the good old days of real machines with 64 >or 128kb address spaces, and maybe 4meg of memory) that the real win >came with having /tmp as ram, as everything wrote it's tmp files there >to save memory (vi, ed, cc, mail, troff,....), and with this as a ram >disk, you really won. > >Jason I have a 16Mb sun on my desk and was considering taking 4Mb of ram to use as a ram disk. The big concern that has been expressed about mounting this ram disk as /tmp (as opposed to /ram) is that if the editor, etc. dies, there are no temporary files to be recovered. (vi -r) Comments? Stephen -- Stephen J. Roznowski sjr@mimsy.umd.edu