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Disable /tmp being tmpfs and eating your RAM
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tmp_ram_omnomnom.md

Disable /tmp being tmpfs and eating your RAM

TL;DR

systemctl mask tmp.mount
reboot

I don't know who came up with this brilliant idea to put /tmp in RAM by default, allocating 50% of the memory to it. Guess some people have nothing better to do and have to make everyone happy by solving a non-existent problem. SMH

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