Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?
On 2025-08-10 23:13:17 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> /tmp now being a tmpfs will put more stress on the memory.
>
> The point is turning /tmp to tmpfs and its former partition to swap puts
> the stress on memory exactly at the same point as it was before, with
> the added benefit that tmpfs is more efficient since it does not try to
> survive an outage.
But swap, when used, makes the UI very unresponsive. It is almost
impossible to kill the process that takes much memory. If there
were an option to enable swap only for tmpfs, this would solve
the issue.
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