tmpfs workaround

[Dave Cheney]

Thanks. I will retest on my non ssd systems. 

Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu
><aram.havarneanu at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> For reasons we're not quite sure of, mongo is creating ~ 250mb of scratch space during each test run.
>>
>> I think the reason is well understood. MongoDB creates a 200MB capped
>> collection and it allocates contiguous space for that at startup. For
>> the state tests we override that 200MB to 1MB in an export_test.go,
>> but that obviously doesn't do anything for other packages that import
>> state.
>
>It's 10MB since Monday.
>
>
>gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net