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by zajio1am 363 days ago
Hard disagree. Disk buffer cache is too eager on writes (which makes sense for the usual case), so temporary data written to a filesystem are almost always written to the medium. With several GBs of temporary data it easily could fill up internal SSD write buffers and make whole system choppy.

My use case is to use yt-dlp to download videos to ramfs, watch them and then delete. Before i switched to ramfs, the final pass of yt-dlp (where audio and video tracks are merged to one file) ordinarily caused the issue with choppy system.