/tmp on tmpfs

Brian Wheeler bdwheele at indiana.edu
Fri Apr 6 19:02:24 UTC 2012



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.


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