Re: [linux-audio-user] The trouble with disks

New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] The trouble with disks
From: Anahata (anahata_AT_treewind.co.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 14:15:39 EET

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:21:25PM +0200, John Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:09, Robert Jonsson wrote:
>
> I have mine at /mnt/ramfs, with jack thusly configured. I read somewhere
> that ramfs is purely memory based, whereas tmpfs can use disk as backup
> if it needs to expand.
>
Does ramfs create a preallocated fixed size ramdisk?
If so, this will reduce your available memory and thus may increase the
swap partition usage. Using tmpfs lets the system decide dynamically the
balance of disk usage between tempfs and swap, which may give better
results. 

-- 
Anahata
anahata_AT_treewind.co.uk       Tel: 01638 720444
http://www.treewind.co.uk    Mob: 07976 263827

New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Thu Dec 18 2003 - 14:21:10 EET