On 2016-07-21 18:19:43 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -----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.
Anyway, even if it had worked, swap should not be a solution for the limited /tmp size. The reason is that enabling swap can make the whole system freeze for several dozens of minutes when a program misbehaves. A misbehaving program should crash, not freeze the whole system. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
