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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org