-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:38 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > You are using `survives reboots' as a proxy for `on disk'; and using > `on disk' as a proxy for `has enough space for large amounts of data'.
Yes. :-) > I don't think this is a good approach. > > It's true that /tmp has traditionally been smaller than /var/tmp, > partly as an accident of partition and filesystem layout. > > As a practical matter, there are big performance gains to be had from > not requiring across-reboot (and, particularly, across-crash) > persistence. > > Perhaps the right answer is instead that we should simply configure > more swap by default ? (IIRC tmpfs data can be swapped.) Yes. But that's not the default in our setups. Perhaps next step is to file a wishlist bug report. - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXkOYrAAoJEKY6WKPy4XVpaiEQAK+3+s4hV/GGvpsZrFo0ePii PDQ6uFLEGEjfqgE3Y6Syw6gcrt/gmuC9DSVZ1kG0hXbPU9/9fhtQFZnM8tcu/Pfo SVIODMxaZ9omDBYYl3XHjevM4nkJTPniRs2Mo6frsxE4n6bD1sjb+zMhIT4NFnzM FzLXi8D4xyiTNhqcESrLz2+GyaOC6gEoHc8xZgaC4+REif66AlCoCzWwRuZzki0S l5kMP5hjcZm0rTylqAHB1oAyw8Xd4snFYZm2U5qA+THSgI/mDQYCl4a8IlMj+5cn qB+u43nGjYjeoDsXDkkVVNfBLsm/XFSE48D8OWDfqSZOsGZirJuLk7SYtcgdSXPO 0Iktf25ezLbnhzind1slONgy80Qge5kMDnOJYVT0Cssa4Yfr2ufuA/8pDignxY+L eJnKqzGMHDnf/Q1I6gt6yj1wNa36gPMYe46EZFoCktQxW78Zpw0bUEtZYJ4xUQjd Tq/n5ThTtEHV4x6ji8f3UoeSf8ycyBAVz3J5CXqKGoak6+kocCYIogVvILsOFuCf V14FEuPnr69koT2eGW6R6R02dAU/wrKUcKhljTEabd0/g5Qx/IdhtkEzGLolvWRK XhZ37jCuQNtKGlcKSwKdRsUjlGnfxHisoUgUhy57gL57DQeRcnH/3hOoQbybtXU9 siLMDcSuAGRqw1UNDD7W =wbOb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
