[Tilesathome] Use of ramdisk for temporary directories?

[Matthew Newton]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:11:55AM +0200, Dirk-L?der Kreie wrote:
> Matthew Newton schrieb:
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:43:45PM +0200, Dirk-L?der Kreie wrote:
> >> I'd say we try it.
> 
> As I already mentioned, it's around 2 MB per Zip, which should be
> processed sequentially. even if we process several in parallel (I read
> chunks of 24 somewhere) that would be less than 50 MB still. Although I
> would want to avoid using that kind of RAM (above 10 MB) on dev
> unnecessarily.

Yes, of course. I wasn't trying to imply that it shouldn't be used - I
think it is a very good idea.

Just to be careful that the process always clears up old files, even for
any error cases. Running tmpreaper on the shm directory is a suitable
hack if necessary.

-- 
Matthew