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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: 0.212s | 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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m463 ◴[29 Aug 25 06:10 UTC] No.45060756[source]▶
what swap partition?

I meant this sort of jokingly. I think have a few linux systems that were never configured with swap partitions or swapfiles.

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edoceo ◴[29 Aug 25 06:17 UTC] No.45060793[source]▶
I'm with you. I don't swap. Processes die. OOM. Linux can recover and not lose data. Just unavailable for a moment.
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1. TiredOfLife ◴[29 Aug 25 09:37 UTC] No.45062028[source]▶
Using Desktop mode on SteamDeck before they increased the swap was fun. Launch a game, everything freezes, go for an hour long walk, see that the game has finally killed, make and drink cofee while system becomes usable again.