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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