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How to take full advantage of your RAM on Linux

On the downloads page of Garuda Linux, they say that "we believe in the principle that unused RAM is wasted RAM". There are some performance comparisons on youtube, it wasn't well in stress ...
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How to create ramdisc for Prestashop cache on Debian

Recently I was struggling to create ram disk for Prestashop cache folder which will have read and write privilages. I am using Apache + Nginx (as reverse proxy) and PHP-FPM 5.6 (soon moving to 7.2) ...
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When mounting dir to RAM, will contents remain after computer reboot

I mounted a cache directory to tmpfs for faster performance on my website using this command: tmpfs on /var/cache type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=102400k,mode=777) It seems to be working well, however, ...
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Where is terminal scroll back information stored (how does tmpfs work)?

While trying to test something unconnected, I launched an infinite loop on my terminator terminal emulator which printed a lot of data to STDOUT. After running it for a few minutes, I noticed that my /...
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How to find size of RAM cache use for ramfs, tmpfs

I'm wondering if there is any way to specify the size of RAM cache used to store ramfs, tmpfs? When I look at /proc/, I can't find anything about ramfs size.
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controling tmpfs memory usage

Any way to limit the amount of RAM used by tmpfs wihtout limiting the amount of swap? Most documentations says that tmpfs' size option will limit the total size of the tmpfs partition and later on ...
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tmpfs and debian - trash folder

I have created a tmpfs that remounts on boot and works as I had hoped for. My ram folder is here... /home/user/ramdrive/ While testing I noticed that when I delete files via the Debian GUI the files ...
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