Le Mer 3 avril 2013 19:14, Thomas Kluyver a écrit : > On 3 April 2013 15:42, Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You definitely should not save it in /tmp as it might be mounted as >> tmpfs. >> > > I'm curious as to why this is such a bad idea - I'm used to browsers and > e-mail clients putting things in /tmp if I select 'Open' rather than > 'Save'.
When tmpfs is a ramdisk it is fast *but* limited to ram+swap size. So on current systems it is quite easy to saturate it with a few files in the hundred megs/gigabyte size. -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
