> It's far too easy to clog up memory with forgotten files by defaulting to /dev/shm, for instance, and you potentially also take memory away from the rest of t

> It's far too easy to clog up memory with forgotten files by defaulting to /dev/shm, for instance, and you potentially also take memory away from the rest of the system until the next reboot. Aren't both solved by swapping? Although I suppose on Linux, neither having swap, nor it being backed by dynamically growing files, is guaranteed.