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Give space to a tiny computer (tmpfs with swap over nfs)
I have a tiny computer with not so much RAM (1-2GiB) and very little disk space in which I installed Gentoo. I also have space on a shared NFS.
In order to be able to compile any package, even the ...
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Where's my RAM disk being stored?
I'm running an Ubuntu VM under Windows 7, within the VM I've allocated a 5GB RAM disk using sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=5G tmpfs /mnt/gitRAM and then copied files into it. When I then look at conky ...
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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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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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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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