Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> In my eyes no program at all should store caches in $HOME. There is
> $TMPDIR for that. Even small files can be a big problem, if you have
> several hundred users.
But if TMPDIR="$HOME/tmp" then you have the same problem. Furthermode,
you _do want_ to store index databases unser $HOME if you are using NFS
otherwise you'd have to re-index your home directory every time you sit
down at a different lab machine, which would mean a huge amount of
completely unneccessary extra I/O for your NFS server.
Gabor
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