Re: [Bug 1533639] [NEW] [ubuntu-cpc] please make /tmp a tmpfs in RAM

2016-01-25 Thread Ben Howard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 After considering the robust discussion, I would like to propose that we move forward with this change via Cloud-init with some sane defaults (i.e. it is _NOT_ running in a container and memory is greater than 2GB of RAM). Given that Xenial is in Al

[Bug 1533639] [NEW] [ubuntu-cpc] please make /tmp a tmpfs in RAM

2016-01-13 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
You have been subscribed to a public bug by Ben Howard (utlemming): In Ubuntu, we clear /tmp on every boot. As such, on servers, by default /tmp should actually be a tmpfs entirely in RAM. This has several advantages, mainly: * Performance - much faster read/write access to data in /tmp * Secu