On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jiri Slaby
Yes, I still have a notebook with 2G of memory. I still have a 386 box with 512M of memory. And both are currently on the edge. No, thanks, I really don't want any more swapping.
Did they think about this change thoroughly?
(And yes, I have /tmp as tmpfs on my 6G-of-RAM machine.)
BTW stateless /tmp can be achieved by rm -rf /tmp/* at each boot.
A more important matter is... how does the distribution guarantee correct behavior on low-memory systems? If I install it on a 128M system, you simply can't assume any significant amount of tmpfs storage. What then? Suck up 64M of RAM for tmpfs? That's quite useless for temp files and quite detrimental of system performance. I think this default has to be handled done a lot smarter than "tmpfs by default on all". Remember, 128M is not necessarily a 20-yo box. It may be a virtual machine. Even though you'd expect the need of customization on a VM already, I still think /tmp has to be made really small on all systems (no matter how much RAM), if only to guarantee consistent behavior across all installations. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org