-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2013-05-06 at 23:11 -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 05/06/2013 10:50 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If, for example, gimp needs to store a temporary file of 4 GB in /tmp, in my computer that means it will swap (I have 8GiB ram, and swap is used already). Swap being used that lot means that most of the system applications will be impacted. On the other hand, if /tmp is disk, only gimp is impacted.
Or... I read comments the other day of some one using k3b. It turned out that dvd images were going to /tmp - again, huge usage.
Worse: many people nowdays do not even create swap! They think that computers with 8 GiB are big enough.
Both of those cases are bugs in the applications, they must create those files in /var/tmp instead.
Why is it a bug? Who mandates what goes where? /tmp has existed for eons, and you can not change what other software developers do. If you make the distribution change /tmp to RAM, you piss users instead, who are innocent bystanders. Get all those applications to correct their act first (if you can convince them), then consider if /tmp can be changed to RAM. Not otherwise. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGIdSEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Vg9QCcDyg2Vrc5eYJp8JxsuCsIhXCR dxIAn29ZvVkufLYfuf5GQVYKN1fCq0V9 =KwEN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----