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From: Christoph Gysin <cgysin@gmx.ch>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:26:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F892DD.6020600@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508082317.10820.nbensa@gmx.net>

Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Christoph Gysin wrote:
> 
>>What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp?
> 
> he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout) 

What have pipes to do with /tmp? A pipe is nothing more than a buffer (in 
memory) between two processes. If there's not enough memory, the buffer could be 
swapped out to the swap partition (if any). Nothing gets written to /tmp.

> and nope... I didn't read the whole message.

Please read the posts before answering. If the post is really long, it's okay to 
skip some parts if you mention that in your answer.

Christoph
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-09 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-08 10:59 [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space gentoo
2005-08-08 11:28 ` Christoph Gysin
2005-08-08 11:55   ` gentoo
2005-08-08 12:10     ` Christoph Gysin
2005-08-08 12:40       ` gentoo
2005-08-08 12:56         ` Christoph Gysin
2005-08-08 13:53           ` gentoo
2005-08-08 14:05             ` Christopher Fisk
2005-08-08 22:14               ` Raymond Lillard
2005-08-12 22:46                 ` mat
2005-08-08 14:50             ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2005-08-08 19:10             ` Jonathan Nichols
2005-08-08 11:57 ` Norberto Bensa
2005-08-08 12:09   ` gentoo
2005-08-08 12:09   ` Christoph Gysin
2005-08-08 13:54     ` Christopher Fisk
2005-08-09  2:17     ` Norberto Bensa
2005-08-09 11:26       ` Christoph Gysin [this message]
2005-08-14  7:30         ` Norberto Bensa

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