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Mr. Alex 05-03-2012 05:04 PM
Is tmpfs in RAM first?
 
Hi! Is tmpfs located in RAM first and when RAM is full it goes to swap? Because I can't see how it fills up RAM in conky.

jefro 05-03-2012 05:23 PM
syg00 is correct.

syg00 05-03-2012 07:18 PM
tmpfs was specifically designed to be swappable - versus ramfs which @jefro may be thinking of. It is created in kernel buffers (i.e. in RAM) and defaults to a maximum size of half your RAM.
Have a read of tmpfs.


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