John Dangler wrote: > I could guesstimate that /tmp could use no more than 10% - approx 3gb - ever And should remain way below that. One thing you might care to try, since IIRC you have plenty of memory, is adding none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 to /etc/fstab. This mounts /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem (obviously): while memory pressure is low, files stay in RAM. As more memory is used, they get pushed out to swap like any other file. The filesystem has a maximum size (by default, half of RAM), but only uses what it actually needs. On my system, that's currently 5 MB. This does mean that /tmp is wiped each boot: this is actually recommended in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. You may want some more swap to handle this, but not much. See /usr/src/linux-*/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt for more details. James. -- E-mail address: james@ | "Come on, son, give us your best shot." westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Goliath
