On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:41, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:31, Tibor Pittich wrote: > > On 07. mar 2003, 11:24, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > > How can I increase the amount of tmpfs space in /tmp? > > > > check your kernel documentation: > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt > > > > ... > > tmpfs has a couple of mount options: > > > > size: The limit of allocated bytes for this tmpfs instance. The > > default is half of your physical RAM without swap. If you > > oversize your tmpfs instances the machine will deadlock > > since the OOM handler will not be able to free that memory. > > ... > > > > this parameter you can use with mount command, or add into fstab > > where is defined /tmp mountpoint > > Hm. I have issues with the idea of deadlocking because I used too much > memory, and tmpfs mounting as /tmp looks like a good idea (though still > voodoo -- I'm actually just annoyed by it because I once downloaded some > Solaris upgrade packages into /tmp and had them deleted by a reboot :-)
Jack is your lilo set to clean /tmp on reboot? > > There might be something I can do in VMware with host reserved memory, > or I'll look at reducing Win2K's memory footprint some more. > > thanks,
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