From: Andrew Tselischev <andrewts@farlander.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 06:03:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170524060327.GA24104@bonus.content> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170524051002.12325.12B52329@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:16:56PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith?
>
> I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no
> advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like
> ext3, because the files there are normally so small that they will stay
> in the page cache 100% of the time.
>
> But I see that tmpfs is the default with systemd. Surely they have a
> good reason for this? :)
for most purposes, it avoids thrashing your storage media with useless i/o.
if your purposes are unusual, by all means change it back.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-24 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-24 5:16 [gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-24 5:34 ` gentoo-user
2017-05-24 6:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 17:05 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 18:46 ` [gentoo-user] Puzzled by zswap [Was: tmp on tmpfs] Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-25 19:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-05-26 6:00 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 18:34 ` [gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs Ian Zimmerman
2017-05-24 19:30 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24 21:16 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-24 22:40 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 6:34 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 11:04 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 12:23 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 14:16 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 16:06 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 16:28 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 16:41 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-25 3:38 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-25 7:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-05-25 3:36 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-24 17:00 ` [gentoo-user] " R0b0t1
2017-05-24 6:03 ` Andrew Tselischev [this message]
2017-05-24 9:34 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24 9:43 ` gentoo-user
2017-05-24 9:54 ` Rich Freeman
2017-05-24 12:45 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-25 4:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2017-05-25 7:24 ` Mick
2017-05-25 15:46 ` Martin Vaeth
2017-05-25 22:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Kent Fredric
2017-05-28 10:07 ` Mick
2017-05-31 0:36 ` Kent Fredric
2017-05-31 7:33 ` Mick
2017-05-24 18:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-29 11:09 [gentoo-user] Kernel did not finding root partition Raphael MD
2017-05-29 11:19 ` Rasmus Thomsen
2017-05-29 17:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-05-29 18:07 ` Raphael MD
2017-05-29 18:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-05-29 19:42 ` Kai Krakow
2017-05-30 8:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-05-30 17:08 ` Raphael MD
2017-05-30 18:05 ` Mick
2017-05-30 19:28 ` Kai Krakow
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