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A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

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150 points shaunpud | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 02:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nrdvana ◴[29 Aug 25 04:29 UTC] No.45060203[source]▶
The third mitigating feature the article forgot to mention is that tmpfs can get paged out to the swap partition. If you drop a large file there and forget it, it will all end up in the swap partition if applications are demanding more memory.
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buckle8017 ◴[29 Aug 25 04:31 UTC] No.45060224[source]▶
Which is a great reason to have a big swap file now.
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