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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
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 22:03:34 1987
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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
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Stephen J. Roznowski                 sjr@mimsy.umd.edu