Hello,

I am using Knoppix 3.2, running from CD-ROM, on a laptop with 32 MB RAM.
According to the command df, the ramdisk /dev/shm, mounted on /ramdisk, is
using 20 MB, leaving only 12 MB for the real work (not entirely true; I also
have a swap partition). This makes the whole setup terribly slow.
I notice that this ramdisk is only used marginally for hosting /home and
/var (through symlinks). What I tried to do to make things faster, is to use
a small ext2 partition on hard disk. I have copied the contents of
/ramdisk/home and /ramdisk/var to the hard disk and changed the symlinks
accordingly. Then I unmounted the ramdisk (using the -f option).
But this action did not released any additional RAM (checked with the
command free). What can I do to make full use of the available RAM?

Thanks for any help
Luc Soethout