Benedict Verheyen schreef: > Hi, > > > i recently encountered a problem when starting an UML. > I had 5 running and wanted to start a 6th. > I booted but when in logged in, it crashed just before > reaching the prompt. > With crashing, i actually mean more like vanishing as it > dropped me to the system prompt and no trace of the UML > was found. > I then checked my file system and saw that /dev/shm was > quite full, 99%. > I resized it > mount -o remount,size=550M /dev/shm > > checked memory > tmpfs 550M 455M 96M 83% /dev/shm > > After the resize i could start the extra UML without problems. > > Now i will run into this problem again when i reboot the server. > > So, how can i increase the size of /dev/shm on boot so all the > uml's will start without problems? > > Regards, > Benedict
I just found that i could a line to /etc/fstab to increase the size: tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=550M 0 0 Isn't it better to just increase the initial memory for the UML's on startup or do i need to monitor /dev/shm anyway? Regards, Benedict ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
