On 01/19/2011 12:11 PM, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM, drago01<drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Well /tmp should be mounted tmpfs anyway (I have been doing this for >> years and it is working just fine). >> tmp isn't a persistent storage so it makes a lot of sense, and it is >> *not* a dumping ground for giant files (apps that try to do that are >> just broken). > > Unfortunately firefox is one of those apps. I experimented with tmpfs > /tmp a while back, and ran into very much badness. /tmp rapidly gets > all full of large PDFs I've clicked on, as well as the flash plugin > seems to like to spool video its streaming in /tmp. Playing around with flash spooling, I noticed that Chrome uses ~/.cache/google-chrome... I wonder if firefox and friends should use places like that instead? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
