On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A pseudo-policy (pseudo since it wasn't, AFAIK, an official policy) > was instituted whereby applications that were creating large files in > "/tmp" should be patched to use "/var/tmp". >
This has been the norm on Gentoo for ages - this is why package builds happen in /var/tmp. Many Gentoo users tend to mount /tmp as tmpfs. Actually, many tend to mount /var/tmp as tmpfs as well if they can afford the RAM - it GREATLY improves build times. I moved to building kernels in /var/tmp for the same reason. About the only time I find myself overriding TMPDIR is if I'm running sort on a large file (multi-GB). Merge sorts tend to be heavy on disk use, but fortunately sequential in disk access, so it makes sense to dump them to a disk if they're large. -- Rich
