Re: make use of /dev/shm

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To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: make use of /dev/shm
From: "Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net" <d.terweij@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 00:33:11 +0200
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Reply-to: Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net <d.terweij@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 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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- make use of /dev/shm
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