On 01/19/2011 12:11 PM, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM, drago01drago01@gmail.com wrote:
Well /tmp should be mounted tmpfs anyway (I have been doing this for years and it is working just fine). tmp isn't a persistent storage so it makes a lot of sense, and it is *not* a dumping ground for giant files (apps that try to do that are just broken).
Unfortunately firefox is one of those apps. I experimented with tmpfs /tmp a while back, and ran into very much badness. /tmp rapidly gets all full of large PDFs I've clicked on, as well as the flash plugin seems to like to spool video its streaming in /tmp.
Playing around with flash spooling, I noticed that Chrome uses ~/.cache/google-chrome... I wonder if firefox and friends should use places like that instead?