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

[Tobias Diedrich <td@example.com>]

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.

At least for one VMWare session 256MB seems enough for me.
But that would explain why my system is swapping like hell when I use
vmware...

> Evil closed source, can't even hack it to use ~/tmp instead,
> yada yada yada.

hexedit :-)

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