Re: Oh no, not partitioning again!
On the 04/02/2011 02:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2011, PMA wrote:
[cut]
>
>> /tmp As a rule of thumb -- i.e., special considerations
>> notwithstanding -- what do you think of making
>> this the same size as /var?
>
> I leave it on /, and ask the initscripts to mount a tmpfs of 1GB (or even
> less) on top. See attached file (/etc/default/tmpfs). Edit to fit your
> system and needs.
>
Depends on the workload, If you do video editing of large files, or use
application like Blender for large projects, you can end up with several
GB's in /tmp very quickly, if space isn't available the application may
freeze/crash and you don't want that in the middle of an editing
session. Some cd/dvd burning applications can be using /tmp for large
amount of data too, for instance when doing a backup/burn on the fly
with only one dvd drive on the machine. With such workloads using a
separate partition on a separate disk improves performances a lot, if
you go the tmpfs way you'll need loads of ram.
It's almost always possible to easily change the location of the
temporary directory in the applications' preferences though.
Reply to: