Comment 6 for bug 1533639

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

> The big disadvantage of a tmpfs /tmp is that it cannot be paged out

My mistake, this is untrue if you have swap enabled (and enough swap available). I was thinking of ramfs. I still wonder what any performance gain would be, though. Using tmpfs will still limit size to available RAM + available swap space.