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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> A pseudo-policy (pseudo since it wasn't, AFAIK, an official policy) |
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> was instituted whereby applications that were creating large files in |
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> "/tmp" should be patched to use "/var/tmp". |
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This has been the norm on Gentoo for ages - this is why package builds |
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happen in /var/tmp. Many Gentoo users tend to mount /tmp as tmpfs. |
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Actually, many tend to mount /var/tmp as tmpfs as well if they can |
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afford the RAM - it GREATLY improves build times. I moved to building |
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kernels in /var/tmp for the same reason. |
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About the only time I find myself overriding TMPDIR is if I'm running |
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sort on a large file (multi-GB). Merge sorts tend to be heavy on disk |
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use, but fortunately sequential in disk access, so it makes sense to |
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dump them to a disk if they're large. |
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Rich |
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