Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > 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.
I believe tmpfs memory is swapped out preferentially, so your scenario doesn't have to play out like that. However, paging being a complex process, it's not impossible either. Is that something people are actually seeing? Because I haven't encountered this. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- 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/87d35rkabc....@vostro.rath.org
