On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Mike Shaver wrote:
> 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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