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> From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ofer Inbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:49:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] gmetric fails when disk is unwriteable?
> 
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:33:05PM -0500, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> > 
> > What's the dependency that causes gmetric to require that the
> > filesystem the CWD is on be writeable?
> 
> as explained by Brad it is not the CWD that needs to be writeable but a
> TMPDIR (which for root can also be the current directory) and that is
> detected by APR.
> 
> Recent Linux (since around kernel 2.4.16) requires a ramdrive mounted in
> /dev/shm, so one way to workaround this problem is to define :
> 
>   TMPDIR=/dev/shm
> 

 Is TMPDIR only used for the include file handler, or also for other stuff. Not 
that we fill memory with lots of unexpected data.

Cheers
Martin


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