Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 23:01:02

 Sp> While that's true, the original statement seemed to be, I ran out of
 Sp> memory because I filled tha RAM drive.  That doesn't make much sense to
 Sp> me, once you create the volume the RAM is already allocated, full or
 Sp> empty shouldn't make much difference... Of course I might the memory
 Sp> allocation theory wrong... and its done dynamically... but that seems...
 Sp> dangerous and unlikely to me.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

I should also add, the only RAM that is used is that occupied by files.  If you have a 6G tmpfs drive with 200MB of files on it, it will occupy only 200MB of ram.  Delete the files, the RAM is freed.

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