El Vie 07 Mar 2003 20:24, Jack Coates escribi� sabiamente: > I have 384M of RAM and I'm using VMWare. Currently I give it 128M to > play with, which because of that shared memory tmpfs Solaris-like voodoo > is implemented under /tmp. > > For whatever reason, my system has set a maximum size of 188M on /tmp. > > Since upgrading (downgrading) my VMWare image from W98 to W2k, I'd like > to increase the amount of memory it has to work with -- however, if I go > past 128M it rapidly fills up /tmp and VMWare barfs. > > How can I increase the amount of tmpfs space in /tmp? > > Failing that, why the tmpfs voodoo and is there anything wrong with > blowing it away and using plain old fashioned disk space for /tmp? > > thanks,
Maybe the problem is that your /mnt is a mountpoint for a tmpfs, and tmpfs is limited to your memory. Yes, maybe you can use swap (I don't know) for tmpfs, but IMHO the best solution is: - Edit your /etc/fstab - Delete the line related to /tmp mountpoint: (In my case: "none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0") - Reboot Now tmp files will be stored in your harddisk, not in ram. The limit of the tmp folder will be the limit of your / partition (of course you can mount some other partition in /tmp to get more space;) OTOH, from now you shoud use tmpwatch to clean the /tmp folder (man tmpwatch). Best regards, -- �scar Santacreu Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 http://counter.li.org/
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