On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Hector Martinez-Seara <hseara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sometimes you simply need more space that the one available in /tmp. > In all my systems /tmp is in ram and as some machines have only 4Gb > memory the available space in /tmp is about 2Gb only which is > sufficient for most of the stuff but some compilations need more. I think the correct solution is to use swap (unless it is truly a one-off case). [But I'm sure the patch would also make sense]. -t