> The big disadvantage of a tmpfs /tmp is that it cannot be paged out
My mistake, this is untrue if you have swap enabled (and enough swap available). I was thinking of ramfs. I still wonder what any performance gain would be, though. Using tmpfs will still limit size to available RAM + available swap space.
> The big disadvantage of a tmpfs /tmp is that it cannot be paged out
My mistake, this is untrue if you have swap enabled (and enough swap available). I was thinking of ramfs. I still wonder what any performance gain would be, though. Using tmpfs will still limit size to available RAM + available swap space.