On Wed, 17.07.13 17:48, Denys Vlasenko (dvlas...@redhat.com) wrote:

> >> Except ... that would still keep duplicated logs on the FS. Removing
> >> the duplication is the primary reason for wanting to not install
> >> rsyslogd by default.
> 
> > This seems like such a specious argument.
> 
> Note that the argument comes from the same group of people
> who pushed for mounting tmpfs on /run and /tmp.
> 
> My machine:
> 
> # df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> tmpfs           3.9G  4.5M  3.9G   1% /run
> tmpfs           3.9G  4.9M  3.9G   1% /tmp
> 
> 10 megs of *RAM* consumed.

Note that tmpfs is backed by swappable memory. So it's backed by your swap
partition and paged in only when needed or there's nothing else to store
in RAM.

Lennart

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