Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:00:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Edit /etc/default/rcS, set RAMTMP=no, reboot. Or, set TMPDIR to > > > point to something like $HOME/tmp > > > > You don't need to reboot because of the size change. > > > > "mount -o remount,size=<desired size> /tmp" works, at least for > > increasing size. One of the good things of a tmpfs is that you can > > resize it dynamically. > > > > > You may also consider filing a bug, since the more people report > > > problems with Debian's new, absurdly small /tmp, the more likely it > > > is to get fixed. > > > > Hmm, yes, it can certaily be raised by popular demand. But what > > would probably help more is a set of profiles of /tmp sizes based on > > the amount of system ram to provide the initial default size. > > I noticed yesterday that Fedora is planning to go for using > tmpfs on /tmp as well. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4MTg > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs > > Note that the latter has useful advice and notes in the Q&A > section which does pertain to the problems discussed in this > thread. It's clear that some of the problems will be fixed > as they are additionally found in Fedora, particularly WRT > the storage of large files on /tmp. It also notes that a > number of other distributions are also picking this up as > well, e.g. Ubuntu and Arch, so we are by no means alone in > implementing this.
I like the notion to just use /var/tmp for anything big by default. Of course this means changing applications like for example K3b, which uses /tmp for temporary images by default. At least it does here. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204042038.42961.mar...@lichtvoll.de
