25 Nov
2011
25 Nov
'11
6:31 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0100 Geert Hendrickx <geert@hendrickx.be> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:55:55 -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote:
Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important dir, where you might have an valuable info in case of a system crash. I could never understand the logic behind this choice.
Reducing disk i/o.
Geert
I find this a very weak excuse, because the normal desktop operation is not I/O bound, and the dafaults must be safest. If you compile a lot/use a lot of DB stuff, just mount /tmp to RAM in fstab but this is a special case. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D