/tmp on tmpfs

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:41:08 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote

> So I need to invest a week or two setting up blktraces across multiple
> application loads and come back with a series of graphs and charts to
> show how little IO is done in /tmp?

As I said, I think you're right in general wrt the amount of IO
on /tmp (namely, little enough). Just that the numbers you listed
are unable to support that hypothesis on their own because they
measure the wrong thing.

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