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From: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul)
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ???
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 23:37:47 +0000
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In article <R02y0Z7.dysonj@delphi.com>, John Dyson  <dysonj@delphi.com> wrote:
>Mark Weaver <mhw@cs.brown.edu> writes:
> 
>>disk activity.  I always get significant disk activity from compiling,
>>even though my /tmp is a ramdisk.

I can't find the original article but basically gcc doesn't use /tmp
for its temporary files it uses /var/tmp.



-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member.
  Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff
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