Re: increasing size of /run

2018-07-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:29:56PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Adam Weremczuk (2018-07-13): > > What's the safest and quickest way to temporarily triple the size of /run ? > > Do not. > > Instead, change your program to put its tons of data somewhere else, > preferably in a directory t

Re: increasing size of /run

2018-07-13 Thread Nicolas George
Curt (2018-07-13): > Why not (not a rhetorical question)? Because requiring unusual system configuration for user programs is not convenient in the long run. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: increasing size of /run

2018-07-13 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-13, Nicolas George wrote: > > Adam Weremczuk (2018-07-13): >> What's the safest and quickest way to temporarily triple the size of /run= > ? > > Do not. Why not (not a rhetorical question)? man logind.conf RuntimeDirectorySize= Sets the size limit on the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR runti

Re: increasing size of /run

2018-07-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Thank you both for useful advice. For me the AIDE script is a bit too complex (700+ lines) to quickly analyse and experiment with. I've decided to take a lazy path which is simply increasing the size of /run and retrying AIDE job. No problem if it buzzes in the background for a couple of day

Re: increasing size of /run

2018-07-13 Thread Nicolas George
Adam Weremczuk (2018-07-13): > What's the safest and quickest way to temporarily triple the size of /run ? Do not. Instead, change your program to put its tons of data somewhere else, preferably in a directory that can easily be configured. Also, change it to set up checkpoints so that you can r

Re: increasing size of /run

2018-07-13 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 13.07.2018 11:56, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > I have no entry for /run in /etc/fstab so decided to look into > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init > To my surprise the line was showing 20%, not 10%: > > mount -t tmpfs -o "nosuid,size=20%,mode=0755" tmpfs /run > I've changed it to 60% (hoping to tripl

increasing size of /run

2018-07-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, I have a one off big job (full AIDE report on millions of files) which I'm trying to run on old Debian 7.1. The system uses 2 physical disks and physical volumes, no LVM. It has 8GB or RAM and 32GB of swap which appears to be just enough. After running for a couple of days the job faile