Re: Partition war (was Re: [tlug] Using TAR)

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:36:47AM +0900, shimpei@example.com wrote:
> By the way, those of you planning to use VMWare should definitely
> *not* use a ramdisk for /tmp.  VMWare likes to write humongous
> files to /tmp for God knows what--swap, maybe.  I don't know
> exactly what the requirement is, but even 250MB wasn't enough; I had
> to sacrifice a 2GB partition to it in order to get it to shut up.
> For everything except VMWare, though, I've rarely seen more than a few
> megabytes in /tmp at a time.

Yes and those files grow. Grow like mad and /tmp fills up real fast if
you have 4+ VMs on the same machine.

> Evil closed source, can't even hack it to use ~/tmp instead,
> yada yada yada.
> 
> Shimpei.
> 
 
So has anyone tried out the open source alternatives yet? I tried Bochs
some time back, but wasnt impressed. It might be better now.


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A. Sajjad Zaidi
System Administrator
Technology & Operations Div.
Digital Garage Inc.

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