[SGVLUG] Creating Large Ram disks

[John E. Kreznar]

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"Michael Proctor-Smith" <mproctor13 at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks Steve do you know if tmpfs gets writen to disk? The Docs I
> found said it goes in swap. I ask because I am debugging a program by
> writing and erasing alot(read hundreds of thousands) of small
> files(less then 15MB). And my laptops harddrive then died, so I want
> to avoid any posiablity That Further testing will kill my new drive.

If you can get by without the space, you could disable swapping during
the testing: swapoff -a.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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