'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 25/04/12 03:50 did gyre and gimble: > On Wednesday 25 April 2012 03:01, David W. Hodgins wrote: >> As long as it's still optional. With only 2GB of ram, I prefer to >> keep /tmp on disk, since I use it for things like dvd creation etc. > > Then there is those of us who insist on having /tmp on disk, regardless of > how much ram we have available. > I am one of those who frequently encode audio and video. For that I heavily > depend on massive amounts of memory, and CPU power. :-)=
And this is eactly the issue. Apps have to be configured accordingly. e.g. to use /var/tmp where some semblance of persistence and storage space is required, but /tmp for all other issues. This is a discussion for later so I won't go into the ins and outs of the feature suggestion, but suffice to say nothing is decided and nothing should be static (including your own use of /tmp just now). Proposals have to be evaluated on their own merit. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
