Ted Ts'o wrote: > If you're worried about installations which don't have much memory > (i.e., the 512mb netbook), then swap is absolutely mandatory, I would > think! Not really. I have no legitimate programs that use more than 50% of my 1 gb. I have an SSD. So why enable swap? If chromium goes crazy, the OOM killer does what I want it to do. > And if you consider how much memory most desktop/laptops have, and how > often people **really** are downloading multi-gigabyte files to /tmp > (note that browsers tend to default downloads to ~/Downloads), I > really think the people who are agitating against tmpfs are really > making a much more theoretical argument than one that seems likely to > be hit by an unsophisticated user --- and a sophistcated user can > easily decide whether to use /tmp on disk or not. I read the debian-user list and have forwarded a half-dozen cases of users experiencing problems with tmpfs /tmp to the BTS. -- see shy jo
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