Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux

Mike Shaver (shaver@neon.ingenia.ca)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:11:13 -0400 (EDT)


Thus spake Rob Hagopian:
> I like the Solaris method; we have a machine that uses one partition as
> both tmp space and swap... For people who need a few hundred megs of swap,
> it's there, but if you need a few hundred megs of tmp space, it's there...

Until someone creates a _huge_ file in /tmp (as my users are wont to
do) and all of the sudden you're low on memory.

Or when your MOO/database/rendering eats up piles of memory and
sendmail can't create temp files and starts rejecting mail.

Colour me unimpressed with tmpfs.

Mike

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