On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
>> In contrast to RAM disks, which get allocated a fixed amount of
>> physical RAM, tmpfs grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it
>> contains and is able to swap unneeded pages out to swap space.
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> That isn't the case now since ramdisks were integrated with the
> buffer cache:
What isn't the case any more?
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/use_mem bs=1024 count=20000
On what filesystem is /tmp/use_mem located? What do you want to show?
Greetings
Christoph
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