On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:26:15 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 29/03/12 17:22, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:52:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 14:09:29, Camaleón wrote: >>>> >>>> That's the problem, Andrei. The nebook has 2 GiB of RAM, enough for >>>> not having to care about this and the operation I was performing was >>>> browsing a 75 MiB tar.gz file with Midnight Commander. That's simply >>>> what flooded tpmfs and made MC to abort. >>> >>> Maybe I misunderstood, is that the compressed or the uncompressed >>> size? >> >> It's the usual compressed kernel source file, e.g.: >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.2.13.tar.bz2 >> >>> 2GB RAM gives me a 403 MB /tmp ... >> >> "tmpfs" for "/tmp" was set to 423 MiB as I explained here¹ which seemed >> to be not enough because, despite of the size, I run "out of space". >> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/11/msg02155.html > > The current kernel source file uncompresses to over 500MB. I'm guessing > that mc uncompresses the whole file to examine it, so it will exceed > your tmpfs size.
Yes, that's what happened. The space that was needed by "utar" it exceeded the tmpfs default settings. > Disclaimer: I've never used Midnight Commander I use it almost every day for everything. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jl28jb$2ge$1...@dough.gmane.org
