-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Now, back to the actual problem. For many applications, we rely on > > the TMPDIR environments. Tools like Python's modules help use these > > variables and not worry about the underneath platform. > > > > Under Linux, with /tmp more commonly on tmpfs, how are developers > > dealing with it? tmpfs is limited and multi gigabyte operations may > > end up filling it all (as is the case in the debdelta bug report > > above). > > As a drive backend, why doesn't swap work for this? There's no mention of swap > in the original bug report.
Swap will come into effect when the kernel needs more memory. As I understand it, TMPDIR on tmpfs is capped, based on the amount of real RAM the machine has. And any application's view of TMPDIR is based on that capped size. - From the tmpfs(5) manpage, which seems to be Debian specific, it mentions that 50% of RAM will be used, by default. On the machine where the (debdelta) bug is seen, I have enough RAM. rrs@chutzpah:~/Community/Packaging$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7387 1403 4727 37 1256 5677 Swap: 8579 0 8579 And the documented defaults for tmpfs reflect below. rrs@chutzpah:~/Community/Packaging$ df -h /tmp/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 3.7G 0 3.7G 0% /tmp - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXkMTnAAoJEKY6WKPy4XVpkd0P/35T8/2Gct3cJieKrQtZY+ac Uw4sAhv/OeUHAQ1A19SHClIZvRwCznhwEayg8+AfjRkYJjyhsAH/j9OTALWN18z1 SUzxlOpWiQd/oIu6k7scd6xLsKd/9TbuVoeWfrNu9mSciNacS7kK4oaQKGLF5+Jg +3DG3L/lwrDDzO/kvhlQwnNkVoJGNOTz8ss5MydxS5dIjagz+vMqQFgel9vBPrfE hVjcWZZFUPXTXPuwjNGRX/NthDfbHq6Ix9fbBTSHzNKt4aftKBRfGVc5c2y/WWKl S3bW2zui+yo42g+5Qe+eKIxc+KMDs/IAEgLhe7F044WC7h3CP1M0sGEO5Rk7lzje /AX8qeH3A5sS+54PS1v3hv+Q4AZna3/S5GkoFS9D7iYWPrkAzQdVPoVUYlbJn07t nTdBnVdwwh5Y0lNCreRkQ7WVmLHnz5BA+370kgKM3hRVZotzxba/DGD+ODU8s7Iy aL/UtWoWXo2orrVWJAtI7Lp8TV0iINmCMM9DUckF8b5+CtUEuqkQJ1zr5kR6J1WM TG3b15NIiKmBwVKLNyASXQ61am7/vfz1O9V57MVdjkqjLhe9RL/jSBcCswmZ6cZ1 KeYwvEfrW+kvBCie9utkdfvIqfYzOd+qgcfPmh8JEaxSSV7yHe77LyfeoVvkvokC LU/Pz2EaILrGGU33LOnt =7EXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
