Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net said:
Am 02.06.2012 04:08, schrieb Jesse Keating:
The useless 2G file will get swapped out, not important things that are actively being used in ram
it does not matter WHAT get swapped out from the moment on the system starts to swap performance sucks
With /tmp-on-storage, that 2G file would have already caused a large amount of I/O; it is the same 2G being written on to the same storage, whether a /tmp filesystem or swap.