Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 27 mars 2012 à 23:48 +0200, Jiri Slaby a écrit :
> On 03/27/2012 06:08 PM, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > - /tmp is mounted as tmpfs, to make the default setups as stateless
> > as possible. As stated on 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs , we might
> > need to fix some applications to use /var/tmp instead of /tmp when
> > they need persistent storage. Another big issue is educating
> > users.
>
> This will break a ton of boxes.
> * People won't be able to hibernate because their memory will be full
> of temp undroppable bloat.

Let's see how much bloat we can fix, and if eventually, we find too much
we can't fix, we can ship with /tmp non-tmpfs.

> * The overall system performance will be *hugely* reduced. Again,
> because the memory will be full of temp bloat, not having memory for
> gluttonous firefox.

Let's fix firefox so it uses /var/tmp instead of /tmp.

> 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?

I'm not going to do the messenger back and forth with systemd authors.
Feel free to raise those topics with them directly.

> (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.

Except it implies touching the disk..

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>
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