Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!jason@violet.Berkeley.EDU From: jason@violet.Berkeley.EDU (Jason Venner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: RAM disk as /dev/swap Message-ID: <10707@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 12:55:50 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.10707 Posted: Mon Dec 7 12:55:50 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 13:24:26 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 8 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