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How can I efficiently force VirtualBox to use /dev/shm for all VM files?

SuperUsers. I want to preserve the life of my laptop's SSD drive. I make heavy use of Vagrant, Chef, and Virtualbox. I'm using Test Kitchen w/ Vagrant to run my infrastructure code tests. I am ...
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How to use tmpfs and SSD for smart cache

I want to create fast logical disk under Linux for storing temporary files. This files I don't afraid to lost. On my machine I have 128Gb of RAM and 512Gb of SSD disk. So I want use 50% of my RAM as ...
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How to make a good guess for the swap partition size when using tmpfs?

I have an SSD, so space is a scarce resource. I'd like to use up as little as possible for swap. In fact, I have spent the last year completely without a swap partition (the computer has 6 GB RAM). ...
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