[2016-07-21 21:22] Gabor Gombas <gomb...@digikabel.hu> > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:06:26PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > For example, I, as happy owner of 8GB RAM, is perfectly fine with 3GB > > in /tmp, because I actually use less then 1Gb. On other hand, would I > > start 50 instances of Firefox, Gimp and other stuff, I would object > > putting 3GB in my /tmp, since it would make system swap. > > I don't quite buy your argument. If you want to write 3GB to disk, then > you need to write 3GB to disk - it's the same amount of data, whether > you call it "filesystem" or "swap".
Let me explain. If I know that program need for it's operation temporary 3GB of data, and I and only I can decide whether it is apporiate to put it in tmpfs. As such, I find any attempt to guess on the side of program vanity. Program must do it's job, not try to guess my wishes. -- Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff Accept-Language: eo,en,ru X-Web-Site: sinsekvu.github.io
