On Sun, 27 May 2012 09:05:46 +0200, Jarry wrote: > I have read through all replies, but I still did not find > answers to my original questions: > > Q1: Can I somehow reduce the size of /run? I know it is tmpfs > and I know this is upper limit normally never achieved, but > I want to reduce this upper limit. Is it possible, or is it > hard-coded to half of physical memory?
That has been answered, either use fstab, which may or not work, or mount -o remount, which should. > Q2: Can I turn this "/run in tmpfs" feature off? I do not > see *any* advantage in vasting memory for /run Given that /var/run would be cached, at least initially, there is no more memory usage. > If badly written application starts writing some crap in > /run, it could deadlock my computer quite easily. And before > you ask, no it is not so easy to do with /run on hard-drive > because I have plenty of TB there and monitoring software > running which alerts me as soon as any partition is half > full. Unfortunatelly this does not work for tmpfs because > with given read/write speed of ram-disk it would be full > in a few seconds before I had any chance to act... Except that the default size is HALF your RAM, so something else would need to be using the other half and all your swap (tmpfs will use swap if physical memory is not available). -- Neil Bothwick Octal: (n.) a base-8 counting system designed so that one hand may count upon the fingers of the other. Thumbs are not used, and the index finger is reserved for the 'carry.'
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