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Subject: Re: Bug#987316: initscripts: tmpfs has wrong size
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:11:12 +0100
From: Roger Lynn
To: Thorsten Glaser
On 21/04/2021 18:38, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
• add “set -x” as first
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Roger Lynn wrote:
> Swap is apparently initialised later. There are three calls to that script
> recorded by bootlogd and on all of them SwapTotal is 0 kB. It then prints the
> lines for "Mounting local filesystems", "Activating swapfile swap, if any" and
> "Cleaning up
severity 987316 minor
thanks
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Roger Lynn wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. I think that reduces this bug to "Why is my
> tmpfs set to 20% of physical RAM rather than 20% of total virtual memory?"
There’s a difference betwen setting it to 20% and to 20%VM.
The default
On 21/04/2021 16:56, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
To “provide no value” you have to actually do…
TMPFS_SIZE=
… in /etc/defaults/tmpfs because the commented-out value is default.
Perhaps rewording tmpfs(5) to say “If this is explicitly set to the
empty string, the kernel default…” is in order?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Roger Lynn wrote:
> tmpfs(5) says:
>TMPFS_SIZE
> Maximum size for all tmpfs filesystems if no specific size is
> provided. The default is 20%VM (20% of virtual memory, includ‐
> ing swap space). If no value is provided
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.96-6
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ro...@rilynn.me.uk
Hi,
I think this bug is not the same as #688412 because /etc/fstab is NOT involved
here.
As shown in the configuration files below, I have configured RAMTMP with the
default size settings.
tmpfs(5) says:
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