/tmp on tmpfs
Chris Murphy
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Fri Apr 6 19:40:14 UTC 2012
On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> On 04/06/2012 02:50 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> What happens to /tmp on tmpfs when real memory and swap are completely consumed?
>
> I assume it would get an -ENOSPC...but with RAM and swap being full I don't expect that the end user would ever see the error before the machine bogged down to the point of being unusable. Of course, I could be wrong.
It kinda sounds to me like /tmp on tmpfs is a solution in search of a problem.
Chris Murphy
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