sticky directory

[Andy Pieters]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 16:30, Matthew Miller wrote:
> It's true that if you don't know what the mount point /dev/shm is, you
> might think that you're giving up disk space, but if you know that it's not
> a disk device at all and realize that it's taken out of RAM as needed up to
> the defined limit (which as you can see defaults to about half of your
> physical RAM), then it *does* show you something to make you feel better.

You're absolutely right and I do feel better about it now.  It caught my 
attention since Fedora Core 3 Heidelberg does not seem to have it.

Thank you all for patiently explaining this to me.


Andy

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