Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 29 mars 2012 à 10:54 +0200, Richard Guenther a écrit :
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Frederic Crozat wrote:
>
> > Le mercredi 28 mars 2012 à 11:41 -0300, Claudio Freire a écrit :
> > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > In short, I would STRONGLY recommend against mounting /tmp tmpfs. That 
> > > > ONLY
> > > > works for advanced users as they can fix the resulting problems 
> > > > themselves.
> > > > Anyone who keeps their PC on for a longer period of time will see that
> > > > folder grow and grow and grow. Eating memory instead of diskspace is 
> > > > bad in
> > > > itself, running out of space there is worse...
> > >
> > > I recommend the opposite. I recommend doing this move with a small
> > > tmpfs early in the release cycle, so that testers can weed out
> > > misbehaving apps (like gimp). Those apps should be using /var/tmp.
> >
> > To be more precise, Lennart (systemd author) has put some developer
> > oriented informations about /tmp in a post blog : 
> >
> > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/tmp.html
>
> Hmm.
>
>   6. Otherwise use $TMPDIR with a fallback on /var/tmp. Also use 
> mkstemp()/mkdtemp().
>
> that's what the GCC case applies to.  Which means $TMPDIR be better
> _not_ /tmp.
>
> ?

With tmpfs /tmp, probably, regarding the memory usage of it..

Feel free to discuss the topic with Lennart in the comments on the page.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>
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