* Dave Plater
It is just a matter of having a big enough swap partition.
I'm worrying about protecting my meger 1Gig ram, I've a 1.5 Gig swap mainly because I hibernate regularily and that fails if I have too many tabs open in firefox. I usualy close and save firefox, if I remember. Can you imagine what would happen if /tmp is on any ram based file system and I process a dvd which uses four and a half gig in /tmp. If a change is made like that there are going to be a lot of very unhappy desktop users if, mainly packman packages don't change the default temporary directory.
tmpfs lives in the page cache and is backed by swap, it will not tak away any memory from firefox or other applications. However you would need a bigger partition for hibernation which is large enough to acommodate the tmpfs filesystem as well. BTW, you can create a larger separate partition exclusively for hibernation in order to solve your problem with firefox taking too much memory. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org