On 01/19/2011 12:11 PM, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM, drago01<drago01(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Well /tmp should be mounted tmpfs anyway (I have been doing this for
> years and it is working just fine).
> tmp isn't a persistent storage so it makes a lot of sense, and it is
> *not* a dumping ground for giant files (apps that try to do that are
> just broken).
Unfortunately firefox is one of those apps. I experimented with tmpfs
/tmp a while back, and ran into very much badness. /tmp rapidly gets
all full of large PDFs I've clicked on, as well as the flash plugin
seems to like to spool video its streaming in /tmp.
Playing around with flash spooling, I noticed that Chrome uses
~/.cache/google-chrome... I wonder if firefox and friends should use
places like that instead?