/tmp on tmpfs

[M A Young]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Chris Adams wrote:

> Also, if some user has taken up lots of space in /tmp, you can LART the 
> user and delete the files; that's no different than a user filling up a 
> partition by writing to /tmp (no reboot necessary in either case).

That assumes your system is still functional enough to allow you to do 
that. In a low memory/high swap situation, which this could easily 
trigger, logging in and clearing the files could be very slow, and the 
login process could time out before you get logged in.

 	Michael Young