<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">>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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">I think a lot of the decision depends on your specific load and how you manage it. RAM is used for all sorts of things and even though 64 GB sounds like a lot, you could end up with thrashing between the different uses.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">The other thing that has been happening over the years is that methods of doing things also changes. Years ago interprocess locks were often implemented by creating a tmp file, usually with a "." in front of it so it was invisible, opening it, then "deleting" the file (which would not actually be deleted until it was closed. If you could not create a file of the same name, you knew the process was "locked". This gave way to more sensible methods of creating locks through system calls.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">md</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM Wayne via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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.<br>
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On 4/10/25 9:13 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:<br>
> <br>
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:28:11 -0400<br>
> "Jon \"maddog\" Hall" <<a href="mailto:jon.maddog.hall@gmail.com" target="_blank">jon.maddog.hall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> Steve,<br>
>><br>
>> Do you swap that much? If so I would recommend much more RAM.<br>
> <br>
> When I put my computer together in 2020, 64GB RAM seemed like plenty.<br>
> But I'm not good at housekeeping my browser tabs and other windows, so<br>
> somethines the thing starts thrashing. I recently installed adblock,<br>
> which helped a bunch, but then I just left more tabs open :-)<br>
> <br>
> So tghe root cause is defective user.<br>
> <br>
>> Also consider putting your system files on the NVMe including all of<br>
>> your /tmp and /use/tmp files.<br>
> <br>
> The entire /usr tree is already on the NVMe. I'll try putting /tmp<br>
> there. Thanks!<br>
> <br>
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