Celejar: > > I'm somewhat confused about this. My system has 2GB of RAM, and I have: > > $ uptime > 20:46:09 up 5 days, 5:30, 9 users, load average: 0.06, 0.09, 0.25 > > $ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 2065172 1047312 1017860 0 66064 357512 > -/+ buffers/cache: 623736 1441436 > Swap: 1949688 102364 1847324
This shows that ~620MB are used for applications and data. About 400MB
is used for buffers/cache (don't ask me what the difference is).
> $ df | grep tmp
> tmpfs 1032584 16 1032568 1% /lib/init/rw
> tmpfs 1032584 0 1032584 0% /dev/shm
> none 1032584 2440 1030144 1% /tmp
>
> So my /tmp is using 1GB.
No. Your /tmp might grow up to 1GB, but it only occupies what's really
necessary. This is the main difference between tmpfs and a traditional
RAM disk. Someone posted an interesting link about this topic, IIRC in
this very thread.
J.
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