From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9559: 23.2; diff mode refining creates many temporary files causing busy hard disk Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E788787.10406@ieee.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316556003 29884 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2011 22:00:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9559@debbugs.gnu.org To: Trevor Spiteri Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 20 23:59:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R68M7-0004d1-H2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:59:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R68M7-00087c-4P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R68M5-00087W-Ef for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R68M4-0008Hg-BX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37181) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R68M4-0008Hc-8k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R68MF-0002wc-2l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:00:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9559 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9559-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9559.131655596211247 (code B ref 9559); Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9559) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Sep 2011 21:59:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R68La-0002vM-AI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R68LX-0002vD-Oo for 9559@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:20 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p8KLx4x3032546; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C692CB4170; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:59:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4E788787.10406@ieee.org> (Trevor Spiteri's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:31:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3986=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <3986> : streams <683536> : uri <964618> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:00:03 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:51563 Archived-At: > This reminds me of something that nags me a bit, although it is not > really a problem. Whenever I'm using ediff, moving to the next hunk always > makes the hard disk work, so I hear a short hard disk sound for each hunk > I move to. I don't know if this is related. I'd think the answer for you is to use tmpfs for /tmp rather than only for /dev/shm. Stefan