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On 7/8/09, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> However, I am not clear on how tmpfs will fail. If the tmpfs mount |
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> becomes filled or exceeds the file limit, since it is essentially just |
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> another disk partition shouldn't it produce a "No more space left on device" |
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> error? |
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Yes it does. Or at least that's what it did to me last week when I was |
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experimenting something utterly stupid with kernel memory settings on |
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a box with 2GB physical RAM, 8 GB swap, /var/tmp/portage mounted on |
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tmpfs with size=9000M, and trying to emerge openoffice -- while only |
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having compiled a kernel which could handle a maximum of 4GB of memory |
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... :) |
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