On 16/11/2011 22:45, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
>
>> Given that any burning software can (approximately) determine what size the
>> ISO file will be, it should really not start to write it in /tmp when the
>> /tmp size is not big enough (which the software can also check). Prompting
>> a user with "I will not be able to write ${file} in /tmp, please point me
>> to a location where I can." should not be too much of a problem.
>
> Yes it can (and does) if there is not enough space in /tmp. What mostly scares
> me is the idea of paging out 4GiB to the swap partition (assuming it is so
> big), because of a tmpfs configured to be very large.
Doesn't tmpfs default to 50% of your memory? Unless you have 8GB of memory, you
shouldn't be seeing 4GB worth of data getting into /tmp by mistake.
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Kind regards,
Loong Jin
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