From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 4 17:29:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from red.whoowl.com (dsl-65-184-21-205.telocity.com [65.184.21.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B37A37B43E for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 96199 invoked by uid 85); 5 Sep 2001 00:29:34 -0000 Received: from jvb@whoowl.com by red.whoowl.com with qmail-scanner-0.96 (hbedv: 6.8.0.0. . Clean. Processed in 1.933614 secs); 05 Sep 2001 00:29:34 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jvb@whoowl.com via red.whoowl.com X-Qmail-Scanner-Rcpt-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Qmail-Scanner: 0.96 (No viruses found. Processed in 1.933614 secs) Received: from black.whoowl.com (HELO BLACK) (192.168.0.107) by localhost.whoowl.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2001 00:29:30 -0000 Message-ID: <002501c135a1$c65db000$6b00a8c0@BLACK> From: "John Van Boxtel" Cc: References: <20010904195037.C7CF02B@usul.nersc.gov> <3B954E5C.7558CDE6@allmaui.com> Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:29:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I believe the Freebsd traditionally mounts the swap as a completely different partition, usually B, like in da1b or da1s1b. This has the problem of resizing the swap amount easily but it does keep you from have to worry about cleaning, or much of anything. I usually do 1.5x the amount of physical ram and never have had to worry about it. John > Solaris mounts it's swap on /tmp while FBSD does not make this available. > Why not use the Solaris way of doing things? > > Eli Dart wrote: > > > In reply to Matt Dillon : > > > > > 'man tuning' (with a recent -stable). In it I talk about /tmp vs > > > /var/tmp and why it doesn't make sense to keep them separate any more. > > > And these days people generally do not rm -rf /tmp at boot either. > > > > Using an mfs /tmp has the side effect of clearing /tmp at boot. > > > > --eli > > > > > > > > -Matt > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message