Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?
On 2016-07-21 18:19:43 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
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> On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > Now, back to the actual problem. For many applications, we rely on
> > > the TMPDIR environments. Tools like Python's modules help use these
> > > variables and not worry about the underneath platform.
> > >
> > > Under Linux, with /tmp more commonly on tmpfs, how are developers
> > > dealing with it? tmpfs is limited and multi gigabyte operations may
> > > end up filling it all (as is the case in the debdelta bug report
> > > above).
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> > As a drive backend, why doesn't swap work for this? There's no
> > mention of swap in the original bug report.
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> Swap will come into effect when the kernel needs more memory.
Anyway, even if it had worked, swap should not be a solution for the
limited /tmp size. The reason is that enabling swap can make the whole
system freeze for several dozens of minutes when a program misbehaves.
A misbehaving program should crash, not freeze the whole system.
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