Tuesday 19 January 2016

Re: RFC on Cloud Images: Make /tmp a tmpfs

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:27:51AM +0100, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> Sure, done! You can find a detailed statistical analysis, as well as
> the raw data for your download and treatment at:
>
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/01/data-driven-analysis-tmp-on-tmpfs.html

This is great :) Suddenly the tmpfs for /tmp change makes sense to me.
As I see it, four out of 500-ish servers deserve /tmp on disk out of your
study. Maybe our machines are well-provisioned or well-run or both but
this feels like a fair conclusion to draw from the data available.

Thanks