On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:18:09AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've made a debian live CD to allow me to perform some modelling. The
> machines I have available to play with have 2 GB of RAM, which is
> normally a lot more than enough to run my work. However, debian live's
> tmpfs (I presume) seems to be taking up about >1 GB of that RAM, which
> (1) surprises me that so much is needed, and (2) doesn't leave enough
> RAM for my modelling.

First off, use a swap partition.

And then again, if you have lots of changes in your ramdisk, try to put
them in a mounted media elsewhere. Or see if they are really needed.

-- 
               Tzafrir Cohen       
icq#16849755                    jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+972-50-7952406           mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]       
http://www.xorcom.com  iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir

_______________________________________________
debian-live-devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel

Reply via email to