Le Tuesday 7 February 2012 03:52:33, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > On Mon, 06 Feb 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > arbitrarily large files (in my workflow, 5-100 GB) in /tmp, which is > > > > on the root filesystem.
And swap as hell and kill interactivity > > Well, that is Seriously Broken, and it needs fixing. And it is not a > wishlist bug either. We've been through a thread about this rather > recently. > > There are no excuses for any application to assume it can dump arbritarily > large crap into /tmp and _not_ use $TMPDIR or some other method to > configure where to place large files. > > > And how about having /tmp in tmpfs, so that it is limited to a > > fraction of the size of memory? No application should assume that it > > can store working files of arbitrary size in /tmp. > > Exactly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202071739.46507.roucaries.bast...@gmail.com