In reality, it rarely matters on most server applications.
Really.
In fact, more often than not when people partition like that, thinking they are going to gain performance or something else, they find the partition they made was too small and they have other problems down the road.
I generally never it anymore when setting up disk partitions. It simply is not necessary for most applications, but that is just my opinion.
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Nut I have seen big boxes suffer (multiple oracle apps...) because of /tmp /var/tmp not purged enough ( and so it is not the volume but how many files present here that can ruin performance...)
And when tmp is full you can have other problems like applications crash and don't work because they can't write to tmp.
So, I don't think there is a good idea in making tmp small so it cannot grow large. It needs to grow and with very simple monitoring, it can easily be managed as far as size.