I just realized that I misunderstood Roger Leigh's posting and so my previous message was mostly superfluous. My apologies.
1. His statement "but you have to mount many more to be able to break your system" was correct (and can be made more explicit by adding "... by filling them all"). 2. His proposal *was* to reduce the size of all tmpfses (together) to 50%, as follows: /run 10% /run/shm 20% /tmp 20% /run/lock, /lib/init/rw very small What remains of my previous message are my two questions: 1. Is OOM importantly worse than a full system tmpfs? I think so too, but.... 2. Even if so, do we have to worry about OOM happening because *multiple* tmpfses got filled? We are already safe from OOM if one tmpfs (whose size is 50% of memory) gets filled. -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da5bf6e.9090...@gmail.com