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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostThat's pretty clever. I typically don't need that when dealing with YouTube, as VLC can open its streams directly, but it's an interesting way of doing it for unsupported websites.
Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostOh, so you mean that you'd rather save some disk space while sacrificing some RAM if possible, but if not, have it write to disk? But then doesn't that happen already when using tmpfs with a swap partition/file?
It's not an issue that data will (eventually) be written to disk. If I keep my tmpfs @ 25%, there is a very small chance data will be written to disk unless an OOM situation occurs. So it will only happen if some program starts eating insane amounts of RAM. When this box is booted, it uses about 125MB of RAM.
And I don't mind if it starts swapping pages to disk. It's just undesirable since the system becames somewhat unresponsive when said situation occurs if memory runs out.
Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostAnd of course, the trick is not nice, but then your case is fairly isolated. There are few people with old PCs that use tmpfs and watch Flash videos. And since Flash is proprietary, not much can be done about it (unless you switch to Gnash/Lightspark).
Aside from that, I don't agree with my usecase being isolated. If you google the bugreports of SSE2 being used in Adobe Flash player (for Linux only(!)). You will see many, many, many bugreports on Ubuntu Launchpad and on Adobe's own website (Bugbase or something?). So that implies that many people are still using old HW for this exact purpose.
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Originally posted by Rexilion View PostThe fact that you two are thinking it's a viable solution suprises me. Moving around important pieces of infrastructure, just to get a browser plugin functioning under every circumstance and to use a TMP variable that points to a tmpfs fs, is not a good idea.All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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