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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using /var/tmp instead of /tmp

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:21:47 -0700

On Jun 29, 2017, at 3:48 AM, John Thacker <johnthacker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I believe the main reason is that Fedora defaults /tmp to tmpfs (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs) which thus limits it to the size of RAM (half that, at default).

Does Linux not have a *virtual* memory-based tmpfs, such as the one that Sun developed back in the late 1980's, allowing pages from temporary files either to be in memory or swap space?

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