On Sun, 27 May 2012 09:05:46 +0200 Jarry <[email protected]> wrote: > I have read through all replies, but I still did not find > answers to my original questions: > > Q1: Can I somehow reduce the size of /run? I know it is tmpfs > and I know this is upper limit normally never achieved, but > I want to reduce this upper limit. Is it possible, or is it > hard-coded to half of physical memory?
I think this works IIRC: List it in /etc/fstab. Max size goes in the options field using the syntax described in man mount > Q2: Can I turn this "/run in tmpfs" feature off? I do not > see *any* advantage in vasting memory for /run (although > I agree there might be some point in moving "run" from > /var/run to /run). But I see one big problem: If if limit the tmpfs to say 100M or so then this is not a problem at all > > If badly written application starts writing some crap in > /run, it could deadlock my computer quite easily. And before > you ask, no it is not so easy to do with /run on hard-drive > because I have plenty of TB there and monitoring software > running which alerts me as soon as any partition is half > full. Unfortunatelly this does not work for tmpfs because > with given read/write speed of ram-disk it would be full > in a few seconds before I had any chance to act... > > Jarry > -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
