make use of /dev/shm

[Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net]

> 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