On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:29:04AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > 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? These were other times. My current lowly laptop's RAM is quite possibly bigger than your whole hard disk back then. And -- with one exception (firefox, I'm looking at you!) -- software's hunger hasn't been able to keep up with that. Cheers -- t
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