Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

At Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:54:53 +0200,
Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mardi 27 mars 2012 à 20:27 -0300, Claudio Freire a écrit :
>
> > In low memory devices, with /tmp as tmpfs, think 1G, brasero, k3b and
> > a few other programs, in their default configuration, would thrash.
> > Those are blatantly wrong cases. But there are numerous gray cases.
> > Python's tempfile module creates, by default, files in /tmp. I would
> > bet tons of python apps, thus, misuse /tmp.
>
> We should fix those "known" programs to use /var/tmp instead of /tmp
> anyway. 

Notorious acroread and flashplayer are such "known" programs, too.
IIRC, flashplayer may store a temporary FLV file in /tmp, which can be
unlimitedly big.


Honestly, someone needs to test carefully (e.g. on a machine with
small RAM) before moving toward this direction as default.
Only facts and proofs can shut up bike-shed talks.


thanks,

Takashi
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