Thanks Thorsten. I'm on road next week, can't tell if i got the time and the nerves to fiddle with the then-production-system ;) but i definitely will go for it.
> Well, once I opened dozens of big-html pages in firefox. Firefox went crazy, > eat a lot of ram and my kernel began killing processes. Hmmm...i would not like to risk loosing data. How about a RAM swap partition (is this possible?) with priority 2 and a legacy disk swap with priority 1 ? Where the disk swap hopefully would take over if ram is filled up. > But I guess 1 GB is sufficient for desktop usage. This laptop has 1.5G, but anyway, i think it really depends on usage. > Btw. I created a user tmp (home is /tmp) for vaious reasons (SSH'ing to > dfferent hosts with same IPs, etc.) one positiv site-effect is, that I'm able > to start a KDE session using my ramdisk only. That's cool. But is it still faster, since it get's new-installed every run ? Assumed you can't save session settings ? Or maybe you just always suspend to disk. > none /tmp tmpfs noatime,size=100M 0 0 AFAIK the defaults are: rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async - if that's correct you could try 'sync' too. Whatever that means for a ramdisk. > Btw. You might want to set noatime for all HD partitions I don't know if i ever needed atime at all. Maybe daemons like cron or stat collectors use it ? But probably not on /tmp. > consider linking /var/log/ to /tmp/log as well. That's also a nice idea. Perhaps it's possible to deinstall logrotate then too. I guess we laptop users can learn a lot from knoppix ;) > > (multimedia streams) temporarily stored in tmp. > Don't store 'em in /tmp? I don't know if and how to configure this behaviour. Myspace audio player for example stores mp3's in /tmp, flashplayer sometimes in /tmp/plugtemp. But usually this would not exceed say 100M or so. Well, it would work assumed i reboot sometimes or clean up /tmp by some kind of cron script. It would be nice to collect some little reports under this thread. m°
