Once upon a time, M A Young <m.a.yo...@durham.ac.uk> said: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Chris Adams wrote: > >Also, if some user has taken up lots of space in /tmp, you can LART the > >user and delete the files; that's no different than a user filling up a > >partition by writing to /tmp (no reboot necessary in either case). > > That assumes your system is still functional enough to allow you to do > that. In a low memory/high swap situation, which this could easily > trigger, logging in and clearing the files could be very slow, and the > login process could time out before you get logged in.
Again, if some file in /tmp is the problem, _that_ is liable to be what gets pushed to swap. At that point, you are back to something more or less equivalent to the current situation, with /tmp on disk. If a user can cause problems with that, they can already cause problems today. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
