On 4-25-14 10:03:11 Rick Stevens wrote: > No, but IIRC the tmpfs filesystem created and mounted on /tmp is 50% > of your system RAM. Once that is committed, it's done. It won't use > up all of your RAM and /tmp won't get any bigger than that, but then > again half of your available RAM is no longer available for program > usage.
That's not true. Swap will come into play and unreferenced data in the /tmp files will be paged out in favor of claiming that memory for other uses. It's still a win, however. If and when some file that was paged out is opened or read again, it will be paged back in. That can be faster than normal file I/O. > IMHO using a tmpfs for /tmp is a spectacularly stupid thing to do. > How it got by the vetting process is beyond me. This was discussed in great detail before the change was made. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
