On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:27:51AM +0100, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>> > I'd like to see even some rudimentary experiments done with realistic
>> > workloads before saying this is a better idea than leaving things as
>> > they are. We've all specu
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:27:51AM +0100, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> Sure, done! You can find a detailed statistical analysis, as well as
> the raw data for your download and treatment at:
>
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/01/data-driven-analysis-tmp-on-tmpfs.html
This is great :) Suddenly t
On 20/01/16 18:39, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On 13 January 2016 at 12:26, Ben Howard wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The
>> rationale, from the bug:
>> * Performance - much faster read/write access to data in /tmp
>> * Security - sensit
On 13 January 2016 at 12:26, Ben Howard wrote:
> All,
>
> On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The
> rationale, from the bug:
> * Performance - much faster read/write access to data in /tmp
> * Security - sensitive data would be cleared from memory on boot,
>ra
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On 14/01/16 18:53, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:54:30PM +0200, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>>> As a data point, I used to have my /tmp on tmpfs while I still had a
>>> spinning disk, in order to address the power usage issues of disk
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:27:51AM +0100, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > I'd like to see even some rudimentary experiments done with realistic
> > workloads before saying this is a better idea than leaving things as
> > they are. We've all speculated and provided anecdotal evidence enough to
> > warran
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 09:17:10AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> By far the most common reason that I've seen is that files are the
> Unix way for exchanging little pieces of data with other programs,
> like flag files, named pipes, Unix sockets, editors, or in general
> things you need to call exter
Clint Byrum [2016-01-19 23:52 -0800]:
> But that's all nice-to-haves. The real reason I'm still skeptical
> is simply that I don't see /tmp usage being a major factor on cloud
> instances.
FTR, I agree that it is much more desirable on real-iron (the
performance difference with my use cases is *dr
