From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SYNo0-0002GR-9C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:41:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F913E061F; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02742E05D5 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EB8880470 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 21:40:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 21:40:01 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)? Message-ID: <20120526214001.0668531f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4FC13850.2020802@gmail.com> References: <4FC1332A.3040703@gmail.com> <4FC1368E.7080005@gmail.com> <4FC13850.2020802@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs46 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/.4.cfJs4A0_odZPH_e9fiuo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7aa4677b-1dae-4843-9503-12fad7885c0b X-Archives-Hash: b8052a51cd43848b3793fd8256813dbc --Sig_/.4.cfJs4A0_odZPH_e9fiuo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 26 May 2012 22:08:48 +0200, Jarry wrote: > I suppose default size for tmpfs is half of physical memory, > if it is not configured somewhere else. It is, but that is the default maximum size, a tmpfs filesystem uses only as much memory as its contents require. =20 > BTW, is there any way to turn this great feature off? > What is it good for? I do not see any advantage in having > /run on tmpfs... It makes sure that /run is available and writeable early in the boot process, whereas /var/run may not be and / may be mounted ro. --=20 Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them --Sig_/.4.cfJs4A0_odZPH_e9fiuo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/BP6cACgkQum4al0N1GQMNoACgi+iUxPV0nX1/CuWXyZS+JWiK 1lIAniEjnze0t6By0XvgdCALrwifC4Cf =oU/G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/.4.cfJs4A0_odZPH_e9fiuo--