Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I join too late but ... (I do not use tmpfs for /tmp) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:13:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:07:43 +, Camaleón wrote: I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. (...) Okay, so /tmp is full. Fine. I

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:12:09 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, I join too late but ... (I do not use tmpfs for /tmp) Time does not matter when good feedback comes to place :-) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:13:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:07:43 +, Camaleón wrote: I'm

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-03-04 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
I stop using huge tmpfs for tmp since it gains nothing for me. Okay, so no more worries about this. I will keep the old-good default for /tmp then. Greetings, I also got in problems, when k3b asked me for a temporary place for a temporary ISO. I choose /tmp (good choice for normal

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:59:38AM +, Dom wrote: I think it would have been nice to have a warning of this change of behaviour. I have apt-listchanges installed and I'm sure it didn't notify me of any changes. True, but there was a discussion on debian-devel titled: /tmp as tmpfs and

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 02:54:30AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:59:38AM +, Dom wrote: I think it would have been nice to have a warning of this change of behaviour. I have apt-listchanges installed and I'm sure it didn't notify me of any changes. True, but

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-22 Thread Dom
On 22/02/12 01:10, Seb wrote: I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Dom wrote: I think it would have been nice to have a warning of this change of behaviour. I have apt-listchanges installed and I'm sure it didn't notify me of any changes. These types of changes are discussed in debian-devel. In a released system they would be in the release notes. But since

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Seb
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:44:46 +, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: On 28/11/11 18:07, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression for browsing the archive) the kernel

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Seb wrote: I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on /? Set RAMTMP=no

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Seb
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:17:15 -0700, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Seb wrote: I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Seb writes: I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on /? Set TEMPDIR

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: Seb writes: I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Seb wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Set RAMTMP=no in the /etc/default/rcS file. # sed --in-place 's/RAMTMP=.*/RAMTMP=no/' /etc/default/rcS Thank you! With this modification, does /tmp still get cleared after each reboot? Yes. That is controlled by TMPTIME=0 in the same /etc/default/rcS

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Bob writes: Did you mean TMPDIR? Yes. Note that you may want to provide for cleanup. Consider tmpreaper. Although not every program is coded to honor TMPDIR... File bug reports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Seb
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:55:36 -0700, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: John Hasler wrote: Seb writes: I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: Bob writes: Did you mean TMPDIR? Yes. Note that you may want to provide for cleanup. Consider tmpreaper. I like tmpreaper quite a bit. It is great for /tmp and /var/tmp. For $HOME/tmp I don't think it is needed. For $HOME/tmp just running find $HOME/tmp with some

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2011-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:07:43 +, Camaleón wrote: I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. (...) Okay, so /tmp is full. Fine. I know how to solve it but I can foresee more situations like this in the future so some questions arise. As the current tmpfs

[Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2011-11-28 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression for browsing the archive) the kernel source package (a ~75 MiB .tar.bz2 file) I got this error: http://picpaste.com/mc-error-YXdyRawO.gif My

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2011-11-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 28/11/11 19:07, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression for browsing the archive) the kernel source package (a ~75 MiB .tar.bz2 file) I got this error:

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2011-11-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: /dev/sda2247G 7,7G 239G 4% / tmpfs423M 423M 0 100% /tmp --- here! Okay, so /tmp is full. Fine. ... Especially when you have 250G of space it seems egregious to clamp it down to only 423M. 1/ How many room should be set for a /tmp

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2011-11-28 Thread Dom
On 28/11/11 18:07, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression for browsing the archive) the kernel source package (a ~75 MiB .tar.bz2 file) I got this error: