Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
/tmp is one of the weirder places in a system.
It is nice that FHS says it is not persistent across reboots, but if you have a workstation or server which is "never" (or at least, seldomly) rebooted, the directory can still fill up - and take away RAM from both oneself and other users.
tmpfs is not a RAM file system but a filesystem based on anonymous memory. This is how it has been implemented on SunOS un 1987 and I am _very_ sure it works the same on Linux. In other words: if you have files that lay around in /tmp. this just eats up swap. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org