Wouldn't it be difficult to figure out disk space requirements for this
configuration? It seems like if I knew that at times I needed 100MB for
/tmp, and 100MB for swap, I'd be forced into making sure there was 200MB
available in /tmp if the two shared that area.
Jim
At 06:43 PM 5/22/98 +0000, Jelle Foks wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I recently saw that Solaris shares the drive space for swap and for the
>files in the /tmp directory (/tmp is mounted from the swap partition as
>filesystem type swapfs).
>
>Has anybody thought about this? Has this already been done for linux in
>some patch somewhere? Are there solid reasons not to do this? would a
>significant performance impact be unavoidable? Would it be difficult to
>use the ulimit settings for quota on the '/tmp-filesystem'?
>
>Greetings,
>
>Jelle.
>
>
>
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