Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2008-01-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
So, what is the current situation of this bug? Are you willing me to improve the patch? If so, in what ways should it be improved? Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `-

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 15:58 +0100, Miro Dietiker a écrit : > I followed this discussion and finally thought about what are we using > tmpfiles for... > I see some typical applications where huge tmp comes into place: > Say i'm processing huge amount of data (but i'm not using a > d

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Miro Dietiker
I followed this discussion and finally thought about what are we using tmpfiles for... Josselin Mouette schrieb: Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 14:44 +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : D-I does allow setting up a system without swap and I have seen installation reports where users actually did that.

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 14:44 +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : > D-I does allow setting up a system without swap and I have seen installation > reports where users actually did that. There's nothing we can do against users shooting themselves in the foot. > Of course, in most cases that will >

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 10 November 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The only case where this will cause trouble is when there isn't enough > swap. In this case, real memory will start to be used for unused pages, > not leaving enough memory for caching files, which can cause giant > performance issues. By defa

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 10 November 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Well, I can't check whether this will actually break D-I because I don't > have a test environment, but AIUI the attached patch should do the > trick. Testing D-I is trivial using for example qemu or virtualbox. As all you're changing is sim

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 12:52 +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : > I wonder whether this shouldn't include a check for minimal available RAM > size. > > Is tmpfs still a good idea for systems with little RAM? > I'm thinking NSLU, m68k, older 486/Pentiums, etc. I think so. The reason is that on such

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 10 November 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 06:13 +, Christian Perrier a écrit : > > So, actually, I don't think there would be any strong opposition of > > the remaining D-I team members for such change...as long as someone > > takes the task of working

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 06:13 +, Christian Perrier a écrit : > So, actually, I don't think there would be any strong opposition of > the remaining D-I team members for such change...as long as someone > takes the task of working on it (without breaking D-I, you would have > guessed).

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > do you intend to change this for lenny? The change is absolutely > trivial, and has very positive side effects, like the guarantee of a > usable system even if all filesystems are full. > > Given the current memory requirements of debian-ins

Bug#245465: tmpfs for /tmp

2007-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, do you intend to change this for lenny? The change is absolutely trivial, and has very positive side effects, like the guarantee of a usable system even if all filesystems are full. Given the current memory requirements of debian-installer, I don't think there is a target system for which it