Please take the Reply-To: out of your e-mail client, it is screwing things up.
--- David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:12 am, David Walser > wrote: > > --- David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > 6. When the option Clean tmp is selected in the > > > Bootloader dialog, an fstab > > > entry gets created which mounts the tmpfs as > /tmp. > > > Is there a reason for > > > this? > > > > Why object to this? > > First I was just trying to understand what the > reason was for this change > (8.1 did not, 8.2 does and now 9.0), perhaps there > was/is a reason that this > is a good thing to do. > > I understand the benefits of a RAM based file system > over some other mass > storage device. However, the problem I see occurs > on small memory machines > when a number of applications are loaded and the > system is begining to use > swap. When main memory is consumed there is little > room left for the tmpfs > to locate more when an application (via KDE) needs > more or I start another > application. End result is there is no more main > memory for the tmpfs, the > application crashes and the console produces a > warning that /tmp is full. Like I said, nothing should be writing there. > > > Why not just let the mandrake_everytime > > > script do the clean up? The > > > reason I ask is that I have had a number of > > > applications crash and complain > > > about the /tmp partition being full. > > > > What's using /tmp? Mandrake has switched it so > > everything uses $HOME/tmp now. > > KDE on a fresh install is using about 625K on /tmp > with only the desktop and > a console active. This of course changes as I > activate more applications. Then this needs to be fixed. Anybody? > > > 7. With the KDE desk top, the Tip of the Day > popup > > > seems to be twice as wide > > > as the available display area. > > > > What resolution are you running, 800x600? Sorry, > > that's just not gonna be sufficient. > > Actually the display I am using is 1024x768. > Besides, KDE runs just fine on > an 800x600 display. Until you try to run some apps. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
