Nice observation Darryl! I bet a lot of us are guilty of using the /tmp
directory when we should be using /var/tmp.
Lance
-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Bond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:28 PM
To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
Subject: Re: How do I turn off swap
Yes, Under Solaris /tmp is a tmpfs which means it is a RAM disk.
Anything file copied to /tmp will consume RAM/swap by the same size of
the file. I have seen many times commercial applications use /tmp for
logs on Solaris (probably just ported the app from another unix). When
the logs grow the machine groans.
Logs on Solaris should be written to /var/tmp which _is_ disk based.
/tmp should be used for small files that need fast access.
use du -s /tmp/* to find if the space is used on /tmp
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