vmtouch
Portable file system cache diagnostics and control (by hoytech)
nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager (by jarun)
| vmtouch | nnn | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 200 | |
| 1,743 | 18,203 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.8 | 8.1 | |
| 2 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
vmtouch
Posts with mentions or reviews of vmtouch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
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Ask HN: Keep binaries in system memory never removed till manually done so
VMTouch may be helpful. https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/
Just lock the file into memory using:
```vmtouch -l /path/to/binary```
- What to do with 40gb of ram?
- Should Plex move away from SQLite?
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Thirsty
You're claiming that gnome loads all of itself into memory so that it can be faster. Now there are a few reasons why I don't think that's a reasonable idea, but assuming that you wanted that... using techniques like vmtouch to keep the files in the disk cache would make it so that gnome wasn't actually using the full 1GB. The "cached" files could be evicted from the cache if some other program needed that memory. Where as loading all of gnome in at startup regardless of whether it's actually used is probably not a good idea.
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What's limiting PC RAM size?
It is a mainstream thing. It's enabled by default on every Windows install, as far as I know, although you may not be impressed by its understanding of what your frequently opened programs are. It's been about ten years since I ran Windows, but I used to have a batch script to read everything in a directory so that it would be in the disk cache and subsequent accesses would come from RAM. The Linux equivalent of my script is vmtouch, although that's a lot more full-featured.
- "Not enough space" when copying a file from Nautilus to a RAMDisk (ramfs)
- A list of new(ish) command line tools – Julia Evans
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Ways to use extra RAM
vmtouch: https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/
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Intel Optane P1600X Small Capacity SSD for Boot Launched
vmtouch.
nnn
Posts with mentions or reviews of nnn.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Directory navigation on Helix
If you want a file full browser experience choose nnn: https://github.com/jarun/nnn . If you have a desktop file for Helix you can use the Gnome Files program to make all your programming language files open in Helix.
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Help compiling a package with a compiler flag from an official Debian source
The other option is to just download the static version https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/download/v4.9/nnn-nerd-static-4.9.x86_64.tar.gz and overwrite the Debian executable at /usr/bin/nnn, but this seems a bit hacky, agreed?
- Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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How do I change default image and video interpreter program through environment variables for nnn file manager ? (Asking herre bc r/linuxquestions doesnt allow posts)
You can get the 'default' nuke plugin script from https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/plugins/nuke and customize it if you need to. You define files by extension or mime type and set default and fallback apps to be opened with.
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What are the best open source tools to easily navigate directories from the command line?
I like nnn ( n3 ).
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Can't figure out how to change icon theme in nnn
The icon-theme seems to be driven by your terminal font as detailed in `src/icons-in-terminal.h & icons.h, and the choice of "terminal-icon vs nerd-fonts vs emoji" appear to be hard-wired at compile-time rather than at run-time.
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
nnn
- [Command Line] Quel gestionnaire de fichiers préférez-vous dans la CLI?
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nnn file manager with icons
git clone https://github.com/jarun/nnn cd nnn make O_NERD=1
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vmtouch and nnn you can also consider the following projects:
cacule-cpu-scheduler - The CacULE CPU scheduler is based on interactivity score mechanism. The interactivity score is inspired by the ULE scheduler (FreeBSD scheduler).
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
its - Incompatible Timesharing System
lf - Terminal file manager
mdp - A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
git-crypt - Transparent file encryption in git
fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
mc - Midnight Commander's repository