On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:31, Tibor Pittich wrote: > On 07. mar 2003, 11:24, Jack Coates wrote: > > > How can I increase the amount of tmpfs space in /tmp? > > check your kernel documentation: > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt > > ... > tmpfs has a couple of mount options: > > size: The limit of allocated bytes for this tmpfs instance. The > default is half of your physical RAM without swap. If you > oversize your tmpfs instances the machine will deadlock > since the OOM handler will not be able to free that memory. > ... > > this parameter you can use with mount command, or add into fstab > where is defined /tmp mountpoint
Hm. I have issues with the idea of deadlocking because I used too much memory, and tmpfs mounting as /tmp looks like a good idea (though still voodoo -- I'm actually just annoyed by it because I once downloaded some Solaris upgrade packages into /tmp and had them deleted by a reboot :-) There might be something I can do in VMware with host reserved memory, or I'll look at reducing Win2K's memory footprint some more. thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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