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Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)08:41:40 No.107601938

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Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)08:41:40 No.107601938

Is there any reason to not just run
rm /tmp/*
when I'm low on memory? It works.

Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)08:44:17 No.107601953

Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)08:44:17 No.107601953

>>107601938
Isn't /tmp/ not mapped to ram?
So making what you are doing pointless.

Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)08:45:35 No.107601961

Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)08:45:35 No.107601961

>>107601953
if it isn't mapped to ram you're doing something wrong

Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)08:46:50 No.107601964

Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)08:46:50 No.107601964

>>107601953
/tmp should be tmpfs, which is mapped to ram.
Also when I run rm /tmp/* I can see the amount of memory being used go down. So in my case it is.

Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)09:43:28 No.107602338

Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)09:43:28 No.107602338

temp is the cache folder. its a good idea to delete it once in a while but deleting in constantly means it has to rebuild it constantly and that can make things sluggish.

Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)10:50:13 No.107602791

Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)10:50:13 No.107602791

>>107601938
You should try zswap, free memory.
Can also swap to GPU vram.

Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)11:00:20 No.107602874

Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)11:00:20 No.107602874

>>107602791
It seems like this was on by default for me.

Anonymous
12/19/25(Fri)11:19:13 No.107603038

Anonymous 12/19/25(Fri)11:19:13 No.107603038

>>107601953
>>107601961
in this econmy?

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