On 2015-04-14 13:26:16 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Yeah, that's a bad habit to have as it slows down way too many
> utilities (lots of stuff benefit for extremely lightweight
> ultra-fast tmpfs in /tmp and $TMPDIR, from "sort" to gcc without
> -pipe), but it is indeed widespread.
Can't disk caching be as fast as tmpfs (or almost)?
> The "persistent dumping ground" lives in /var/tmp, it is not
> supposed to be in /tmp or ${TMPDIR}. But old habits are hard to
> change.
When Debian/unstable temporarily switched /tmp to tmpfs by default,
the /tmp size became too small for files that were really temporary.
So, /var/tmp was *not* the right choice, and /tmp became unusable
as too small.
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