> I am not sure asking is the right thing, I think tmpfs in RAM should > be an *optional* supporte dfeature for those users that have a > workload that *will* benefit from this feature and therefore *will* > seek it. It could have been as easy as a checkbox in the disk partitioning screen of the install: [ ] Use RAM and swap for temporary files Perhaps checked/unchecked/disabled via some logic (enough ram? swap enabled? some /tmp listed in fstab?) but let the user decide. > I do occasionally run swapoff -a > I do that when I *know* the system is trashing just because the kernel > is caching a lot of crap and swapping out a working set that *do* fit > completely in memory if it weren't for the stupidly overly aggressive > buffer caches. echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel