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From: Christoph Gysin <cgysin@×××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:31:24
Message-Id: 42F892DD.6020600@gmx.ch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space by Norberto Bensa
1 Norberto Bensa wrote:
2 > Christoph Gysin wrote:
3 >
4 >>What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp?
5 >
6 > he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout)
7
8 What have pipes to do with /tmp? A pipe is nothing more than a buffer (in
9 memory) between two processes. If there's not enough memory, the buffer could be
10 swapped out to the swap partition (if any). Nothing gets written to /tmp.
11
12 > and nope... I didn't read the whole message.
13
14 Please read the posts before answering. If the post is really long, it's okay to
15 skip some parts if you mention that in your answer.
16
17 Christoph
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space Norberto Bensa <nbensa@×××.net>