On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:34:59PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:32:56PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >* #834 F18 Feature: /tmp on tmpfs - > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs (mitr, 17:40:06) > > * AGREED: tmp-on-tmpfs is accepted (+5 -3) (mitr, 18:12:52) > > The wiki page says: > By implementing this we, by default, generate less IO on disks. This > increases SSD lifetime, saves a bit of power and makes things a bit > faster. > > What about the memory pressure? with on-disk /tmp, the buffer cache > prevents excessive writing if there's memory to spare, but the > system still works when memory is used up. What happens with tmpfs? tmpfs contents are pageable, and will be swapped out if necessary. Dave -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
