On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:08:34AM +0300, Serge wrote: > It dosn't always work in practice. Among the problems I faced myself... > I wasn't able to watch a web presentation (from something like > vimeo/youtube), because there was not enough free space in /tmp for flash > player to download and show it.
I thought those were streaming video sites? Do you mean flash player or something else? > Ok, I agree. There're two main /tmp usages. Some applications use it to > save memory (databases, archive managers, cd burners, image processors, > science software, the flash player after all). Other apps use it for > communication (browsers, mail clients). But in both cases these files may > be large and should be still stored on real disk, not on tmpfs. > And having /tmp on tmpfs makes it useless for both usages. Why is it useless for the second case? > The matter is that exceptions are *not rare*. A simple 2-hours-long > video presentation may cause you problems. Pressing Enter in `mc` on > linux-kernel-src.tar.bz2 may cause you problems. How much RAM do you have / how big is your /tmp(fs)? The fact this caused you trouble suggests to me that they must be very small. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525072204.GC11341@debian
