Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:00:23PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > > That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually configured to live
> > > in RAM,
> >
> > That's not the default in Debian. Of course, it might have been set up
> > that way on the OP's system.
> >
> <snip>
>
> This is an education for me. You are quite right that /tmp is not in
> tmpfs, but other things are, including /dev/shm, which has the same,
> "liberal" permissions as /tmp.
>
> So where *does* /tmp reside?
Depends on how you partition things during the installation. It could
be a separate file system on disk, or just a plain old directory inside
the root file system.
The "default" (as far as that term has any meaning) is to be a plain old
directory.
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