Re: tmp on tmpfs
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:14 AM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
>
> On 2023-04-19 08:34:50 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > There is one downside to /tmp on tmpfs: it eats RAM. You gotta
> > have some of it (currently I've 9G free on / and 16G RAM).
>
> True, and when I used tmpfs in the past (in 2012), I got many failures
> due to lack of space (because of limited RAM).
That makes me want to cringe. It brings back memories of Solaris
constantly running out of RAM when trying to run the SunCC compiler.
(Solaris does not over commit memory. You need boatloads of RAM).
Who would want to torture themselves like that?
Jeff
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