is TMPFS still highly experimental?
Attila Nagy
bra at fsn.hu
Mon Oct 3 18:36:53 UTC 2011
On 10/03/2011 07:14 PM, Xin LI wrote:
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> Hi, Attila,
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> On 10/03/11 04:29, Attila Nagy wrote:
>> For me, the bug is still here: $ uname -a FreeBSD b 8.2-STABLE
>> FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #5: Wed Sep 14 15:01:25 CEST 2011
>> root at buildervm:/data/usr/obj/data/usr/src/sys/BOOTCLNT amd64 $ df
>> -h /tmp Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>> tmpfs 0B 0B 0B 100% /tmp
>>
>> I have no swap configured. The machine has 64 GB RAM.
>> vm.kmem_size=60G; vfs.zfs.arc_max=55G; vfs.zfs.arc_min=20G
> This sounds like a configuration issue. Running without swap is not
> recommended anyways.
I guess it depends on the workload. In general, you are possibly right,
but if you need predictable response times and you can tolerate dying
processes, swapping may not be the right thing to do.
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