On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:12 am, David Walser wrote: > --- David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > 6. When the option Clean tmp is selected in the > > Bootloader dialog, an fstab > > entry gets created which mounts the tmpfs as /tmp. > > Is there a reason for > > this? > > Why object to this?
First I was just trying to understand what the reason was for this change (8.1 did not, 8.2 does and now 9.0), perhaps there was/is a reason that this is a good thing to do. I understand the benefits of a RAM based file system over some other mass storage device. However, the problem I see occurs on small memory machines when a number of applications are loaded and the system is begining to use swap. When main memory is consumed there is little room left for the tmpfs to locate more when an application (via KDE) needs more or I start another application. End result is there is no more main memory for the tmpfs, the application crashes and the console produces a warning that /tmp is full. > > > Why not just let the mandrake_everytime > > script do the clean up? The > > reason I ask is that I have had a number of > > applications crash and complain > > about the /tmp partition being full. > > What's using /tmp? Mandrake has switched it so > everything uses $HOME/tmp now. KDE on a fresh install is using about 625K on /tmp with only the desktop and a console active. This of course changes as I activate more applications. > > > 7. With the KDE desk top, the Tip of the Day popup > > seems to be twice as wide > > as the available display area. > > What resolution are you running, 800x600? Sorry, > that's just not gonna be sufficient. Actually the display I am using is 1024x768. Besides, KDE runs just fine on an 800x600 display. Only the Tip of the Day does not adjust itself for the display size, all other applications I have tried so far seem to work OK. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com
