On 07/12/2012 09:54 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Again.. tmpfs is restricted to half the RAM size by default. You can't > store 8-9GB of trash.. only 2GB, which might land on swap over time. As I have already pointed out some time ago, isn't a bizarre situation that as an application developer I can either use malloc() and store things up to RAM+swap (lets' say 4+6=10GB) or use temporary files and store things up to RAM/2 (lets' say 4/2=2GB)? Once upon a time you used to use files to go *beyond* RAM limits. And the answer to this objection is....? move to /var/tmp. So patch everything (and good luck with closed source stuff). Wouldn't have been more reasonable to create a /ramtmp and patch the applications? (this would have just been "patched for speed", not "patched for correctness" as the sort case). Hey, wait, we already have /dev/shm. So we just had to patch the applications (if anyone cares). -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
