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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 20:34:58
Message-Id: CA+czFiDFddw7oZdaaTcmQ13c4ZZ8AwisG9N=a8DGy9D1GgwWrA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)? by Jarry
1 On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 26-May-12 22:01, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Jarry wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>
7 >>> after updating baselayout from 2.0.3 to 2.1-r1 /run is mounted
8 >>> as tmpfs. But I can not find any mount-option for controlling
9 >>> how much memory is (or could be) used for it.
10 >>>
11 >>> Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
12 >>> tmpfs            8223848     224 8223624   1% /run
13 >>>
14 >>> I know it does not use 8GB right now, yet I'd like to reduce
15 >>> it to some lower value, not half of my physical memory.
16 >>> How can I do it? Can I simply add line in fstab like:
17 >>>
18 >>> none /run tmpfs size=128m 0 0         ???
19 >>>
20 >>> Jarry
21 >>
22 >>
23 >> Holy smoke !  Mine is doing the same thing.
24 >> tmpfs                   7.9G  260K  7.9G   1% /run
25 >>
26 >> But I also have this:
27 >> tmpfs                   7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /var/tmp/portage
28 >>
29 >> So, between those two, I could run out of ram since I have 16Gbs.
30 >>
31 >> There is now TWO people that needs a answer to this question.  Why does
32 >> it need that much anyway?  It looks to me like a few hundred Mbs, like
33 >> Jarry posted, would be plenty.  Jeepers creepers.  lol
34 >>
35 >> Dale
36 >
37 >
38 > I suppose default size for tmpfs is half of physical memory,
39 > if it is not configured somewhere else.
40 >
41 > BTW, is there any way to turn this great feature off?
42 > What is it good for? I do not see any advantage in having
43 > /run on tmpfs...
44
45 If /var/run is described in /etc/fstab, then you can use mount options
46 to control the maximum size of the tmpfs.
47
48 http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
49
50 --
51 :wq