On 06/01/2012 11:05 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So everyone needs to go out and buy twice as much RAM so F18+ can run /tmp as tmpfs without causing memory shortfalls >> for everything else they do. >> That's crazy. > Thats not true (and I've used tmpfs for tmp for years, so I'm speaking > from experience)— tmpfs is backed by swap on demand. Just add the > space that you would have used for /tmp to your swap. Wait a minute. Back in this thread it says that half of RAM is allocated to the tmpfs for /tmp. Plus the purported benefit from this is causing less write cycles on SSD. (See Wiki page) That may have been a benefit a few years ago but newer SSD's will gain almost nothing from this because of the enormous number of write cycles they handle. This "feature" may have some benefits but I think they are infinitesimally small. . -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel