On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:35 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Brian Wheeler <bdwheele@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > * The competition for space between things in /tmp and VM. When someone > > abuses space in /tmp (on purpose or not) then the system is going to > > start swapping and performance is going to suffer and the common > > response for fixing it will end up being 'just reboot'. That's just gross. > > First, tmpfs can be swapped. If you are swapping tmpfs files, how is > that any worse than having /tmp on a disk? On my current desktop I have over a TB of /tmp disk, and ~3GB of free swap (~5GB is being used by web browsers/etc.). And I'm not dying to make swap any bigger so I can start swapping to death, instead of desktop apps. just crashing (this is bad enough already). Saying that my /tmp is currently "only" about ~500MB. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
