Once upon a time, M A Young <m.a.young(a)durham.ac.uk> said:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Chris Adams wrote:
>Also, if some user has taken up lots of space in /tmp, you can LART the
>user and delete the files; that's no different than a user filling up a
>partition by writing to /tmp (no reboot necessary in either case).
That assumes your system is still functional enough to allow you to do
that. In a low memory/high swap situation, which this could easily
trigger, logging in and clearing the files could be very slow, and the
login process could time out before you get logged in.
Again, if some file in /tmp is the problem, _that_ is liable to be what
gets pushed to swap. At that point, you are back to something more or
less equivalent to the current situation, with /tmp on disk. If a user
can cause problems with that, they can already cause problems today.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.