On 05/25/2012 05:33 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> What if we're installing Debian on a very small system, and that we >> need operations with big files in /tmp? >> > > Increase your swap?
So, in this case, we will have the following scenario: - An app writes in /tmp - There's not enough space, so the system starts swapping, including some apps. - The file gets written to /tmp, then gets read - Finally, the file gets deleted - Then we have randomly very sloppy reaction of apps that were swapped out so that the file could be written in /tmp. So, when the user is just opening a big file form any app that is writing to /tmp to give it to another one (let's say, a viewer...), he is *expecting* that operation to take some time, and most of the time, that's not really a problem to wait for some file to open. But a user rightly does *not* expect to have *random* waits for his $application to respond, which frankly, is *extremely* annoying. And that's what you are proposing by increasing the swap space. Cheers, Thomas -- 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/4fbfe095.7070...@debian.org
