On Tue, 03.04.12 08:31, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > My only concern about it being on tmpfs instead of on disk, is how big > it could get, how much memory could be held hostage, until there's a > reboot. I'd rather see it be both size and age limited (each item has > a decay rate or something), so that it's evacuated more regularly than > just between reboots - which could be months.
tmpfs by default are limited to 50% of the host RAM in size. Debian lowered this to 30% for /tmp. Whether it is 30% or 50% doesn't really matter too much, what does matter however is that tmpfs always comes with an enforced limit on size. Since about always on Fedora /tmp has been cleaned up in regular intervals. Originally by tmpwatch, but these days by the tmpfiles logic. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
