On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:09:01AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged > >from > >anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot > >bigger > >than my RAM. > > Increase your swap to 4GB -- even if you plan never to swap. The > space will be available to act as backing store for tmpfs. > > I *think* the algorithm for setting the size of tmpfs is one half of > RAM + SWAP. Hence the 4GB. If that doesn't work, you can set the > size explicitly in /etc/fstab.
The tmpfs (kernel filesystem) default is 50% RAM. The initscripts default is 20% VM. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- 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/20120616214811.gl12...@codelibre.net
