[aspect-devel] Writing output in parallel

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

>     Why would you care to set it to something else than the system tmp
>     directory?
>
>
> thats just what the sys admin choose i guess to call the local raid
> partition
> in our case its /local but on other systems its /scratch or
> /scratch_local etc
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             19685912   3402564  15283348  19% /
> none                  49595884       204  49595680   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/md0             882695836    877288 836980192   1% /local
> /dev/sda3              1968400     35768   1832640   2% /tmp
> /dev/sda2              1968400    760376   1108032  41% /var
> in this case /tmp is not the right choice.

But /tmp is still on a local partition and has 2GB available. If /local 
is the right destination, why isn't $TMPDIR set to it? Or what is 
$TMPDIR anyway?

Cheers
  W.

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