On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:35 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Brian Wheeler bdwheele@indiana.edu 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.