Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 1998 17:36:59 -0700 | From | Jim Wilcoxson <> | Subject | Re: /tmp in swap space |
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Disk space is dirt cheap and getting cheaper all the time. Plus, there could be a reliability concern here. If a program goes wild and fills /tmp (which just happened to me last week btw), I wouldn't want my machine to crash because it couldn't swap.
Wouldn't it be difficult to figure out disk space requirements for this configuration? It seems like if I knew that at times I needed 100MB for /tmp, and 100MB for swap, I'd be forced into making sure there was 200MB available in /tmp if the two shared that area.
Jim
At 06:43 PM 5/22/98 +0000, Jelle Foks wrote: >Hello, > >I recently saw that Solaris shares the drive space for swap and for the >files in the /tmp directory (/tmp is mounted from the swap partition as >filesystem type swapfs). > >Has anybody thought about this? Has this already been done for linux in >some patch somewhere? Are there solid reasons not to do this? would a >significant performance impact be unavoidable? Would it be difficult to >use the ulimit settings for quota on the '/tmp-filesystem'? > >Greetings, > >Jelle. > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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