On Apr 3, 2012, at 9:48 AM, M A Young wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Chris Adams wrote: > >> Also, if some user has taken up lots of space in /tmp, you can LART the user >> and delete the files; that's no different than a user filling up a partition >> by writing to /tmp (no reboot necessary in either case). > > That assumes your system is still functional enough to allow you to do that. > In a low memory/high swap situation, which this could easily trigger, logging > in and clearing the files could be very slow, and the login process could > time out before you get logged in.
If it's limited to 1/2 RAM*, even if it's the primary cause of a low memory situation it shouldn't cause thrashing. If it does cause thrashing, it's the source of it, and would happen if /tmp were on disk. * I still think that default is excessive. But that's more impression than based on merit. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
