[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[Wayne]

Why not make /tmp, $HOME/.cache and others a tmpfs? I've done that for years without a lick of trouble. Blazingly fast, saves the flash, and everything goes away on shutdown or reboot.


On 4/10/25 9:13 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:28:11 -0400
> "Jon \"maddog\" Hall" <jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Steve,
>>
>> Do you swap that much?  If so I would recommend much more RAM.
> 
> When I put my computer together in 2020, 64GB RAM seemed like plenty.
> But I'm not good at housekeeping my browser tabs and other windows, so
> somethines the thing starts thrashing. I recently installed adblock,
> which helped a bunch, but then I just left more tabs open :-)
> 
> So tghe root cause is defective user.
> 
>> Also consider putting your system files on the NVMe including all of
>> your /tmp and /use/tmp files.
> 
> The entire /usr tree is already on the NVMe. I'll try putting /tmp
> there. Thanks!
> 
> SteveT
> 
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