>How do you think gnome-terminal should handle that? Suppose you have 4 GB of ram, shall it consume up to 3 GB and then >starting using the disk? Sounds not only hard to implement, but also why should it take away RAM from other apps?
The Linux virtual memory system is highly adept at swapping out content that's not in active use, keeping RAM for what's hot. The global system for this works quite well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1430620 Title: gnome-terminal writes excessively to /tmp (affecting SSD drives) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/1430620/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs