[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#722571: Bug#722571: chromium: Writes short-lived temp files to /var/tmp instead of /tmp

Julian Andres Klode jak at debian.org
Fri Sep 13 10:26:57 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Giuseppe Iuculano
<giuseppe at iuculano.it> wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 14:11, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>> Chromium writes several short-lived files to /var/tmp, but those
>> should be written to /tmp. Users with SSDs often mount a tmpfs on
>> /tmp to reduce writes to the SSD. But /var/tmp cannot be a tmpfs,
>> as it needs to be preserved across reboots. Writing those short-lived
>> files to /var/tmp thus causes unnecessary writes to the SSD.
>
>
> You can set it  in /etc/chromium/default :
>
> CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--password-store=detect --disk-cache-dir=/tmp"
>
>
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe.
>

It's not the cache. Those are temporary files with random names that
only exist for a second or shorter. My cache was on a tmpfs already.

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