On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:41:44PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:22:24AM +0300, Serge wrote: > > What's a temporary file? Really, why would applications temporarily store > > its data in a file? They do that to *free some memory*. Placing those files > > back to memory renders the whole process of writing the file useless. > > If the files are small and can stay in memory why would application save it > > to file? > What if a file is large but still can fit into the memory, but app authors > didn't assume that's possible?
Said app authors need to learn about swap. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525072220.GD11341@debian
