On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Matt B wrote:

> Ok so you are suggesting that I simply mount /tmp as tmpfs on my
> existing 8GB swap slice and then put in the VM limit on /tmp? Will that

Yes.

> limit only affect users writing data to /tmp or will it also affect the
> systems use of swap?

Well, they'd potentially be sharing the slice, so yes, that's possible.
If your (say) 1GB /tmp becomes full, only 7GB will remain for paging.
However, if /tmp is empty, the whole 8GB will be available for paging.

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