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 1SYPKi-0002sF-5Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 22:19:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0115E0512; Sat, 26 May 2012 22:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gh0-f181.google.com (mail-gh0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0515E0743 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 22:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbz13 with SMTP id z13so1041998ghb.40 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 15:17:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZvhGvivzwngYylLc4HKSil0pfB04762fh7TxBrKJ2SQ=; b=l1ldwlaL9oTIbG/nxtte0gewMB80EzfHniPGb0u8MiR9N6fNWxYg9uyfSlbi+IUV1b y+cjKj1MUEgmSnwSzNI2upc3PDGpoJPuUpIcXJatdoF3LprdKGUBFqM5mhKj7bgxds4M xcWeD/7GCfWG2V7KeUVQkzFAyTxWD7C/KUxuyvnL0M65ZtOE7H6d72/lL7yupl9bUOno wDfPRkI7pn65/xUUuv3AMUg9h58+n1UNQrvsNinNnqnW0ymdXenbDsJfARfCEAH3vqjy ZDKqi8J1E8zd4dVHdXd9M3MWLLvRYx4kwQwkPdq1I/ocOgd1t2hvKchIph9+hqYE3jIV jRfg== Received: by 10.236.78.200 with SMTP id g48mr3064787yhe.124.1338070677281; Sat, 26 May 2012 15:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-93-185.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.93.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i16sm9980108anm.12.2012.05.26.15.17.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 May 2012 15:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC15692.9070507@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:17:54 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120523 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)? References: <4FC1332A.3040703@gmail.com> <4FC1368E.7080005@gmail.com> <4FC13850.2020802@gmail.com> <20120526214001.0668531f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120526214001.0668531f@digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d0ed16d1-db33-496e-8329-e04a33f6c224 X-Archives-Hash: 7384c46282e8d372ad88761c540b18ec Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > >> 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. > > Mine wouldn't be since I have /var on a separate partition. I guess the devs are getting ready for the ultimate screwup udev and friends is putting in place. Oh well. This is life. I just hope it never goes bonkers and tries to use half my ram. lol If it did that while compiling LOo, that could be interesting. :/ Thanks for the info from all the replies. . Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"