/tmp on tmpfs

[Chris Murphy]

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