On Friday 30 December 2011 14:02:46 Paul Hartman wrote:

> On 12/30/2011 07:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote:

> > Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB.

> > What do you have for mount options in fstab?

>

> You can set the size with size=XXXX parameter. For example I have mine

> set to 10G:

>

> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=10G 0 0

>

> It is shared memory, so that 10G is not actually used unless it is...

> well, actually used. :)

...and you can set the size to be more than the RAM you have; any used excess gets swapped out.

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