Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Robie Basak [2016-01-21 9:56 +]: >> I think we need a single canonical (small c) answer. Let's say that I'm >> an upstream maintainer of a project that currently uses large amounts of >> space in /tmp (say debdiff

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Dimitri John Ledkov [2016-01-21 11:31 +]: >> Is it just me, or did the RFC asks about cloud-images alone, and we >> are diverging to discussing all the things, and all the form factors, >> and all the installation

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Dustin Kirkland's message of 2016-01-16 04:25:58 -0800: >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Seth Arnold >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Dustin Kirkland

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

Excerpts from Dustin Kirkland's message of 2016-01-19 20:27:51 -0800: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Dustin Kirkland's message of 2016-01-16 04:25:58 -0800: > >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Seth Arnold >

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

Excerpts from Dustin Kirkland's message of 2016-01-16 04:25:58 -0800: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Seth Arnold > wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > >> Moreover, just 'sudo apt-get install swapspace' and watch as

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:00:16PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: >> In a perfect world we'd have some clever tmpfs file system which would >> use RAM as available and start overflowing onto a disk partition >> (which

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Robie Basak wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >> Moreover, just 'sudo apt-get install swapspace' and watch as swapfiles >> are created/deleted as needed. If your root disk is lvm-encrypted, >> then

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

Excerpts from Dustin Kirkland's message of 2016-01-14 02:27:58 -0800: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Seth Arnold > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:00:16PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > >> In a perfect world we'd have some clever tmpfs file system which would >

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:54:30PM +0200, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > > As a data point, I used to have my /tmp on tmpfs while I still had a > > spinning disk, in order to address the power usage issues of disk flushing. > > I found it to be a least-bad option which led to serious degradation of > >

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

Excerpts from Ben Howard's message of 2016-01-13 04:26:13 -0800: > All, > > On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The > rationale, from the bug: > * Performance - much faster read/write access to data in /tmp > * Security - sensitive data would be cleared from

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On 14 January 2016 at 12:05, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Ben Howard's message of 2016-01-13 04:26:13 -0800: >> All, >> >> On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The >> rationale, from the bug: >> * Performance - much faster read/write access

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:00:16PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Ben Howard [2016-01-13 14:26 +0200]: > > On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The > > rationale, from the bug: > > * Performance - much faster read/write access to data in /tmp > > * Security -