make use of /dev/shm
Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net
d.terweij at nettuning.net
Sat May 27 22:33:11 UTC 2006
> Any idea what's the purpose of /dev/shm? It seems it is not being used
> at all i.e. the dir is always empty.
SharedMemory.
Applications that talking to eachother uses this device.
It is RAM not a hdd.
It is used a lot on my system.
If you know DDE on windows.. its called shm in linux :)
> Can I point some apps's tmp dir to /dev/shm?
No leave it alone is my guess.
Danny
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