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 1SYTpj-00020M-HK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 May 2012 03:07:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5005CE07B5; Sun, 27 May 2012 03:07:41 +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 30256E07FC for ; Sun, 27 May 2012 03:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbz13 with SMTP id z13so1058797ghb.40 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:06:15 -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=u3XI3/8H6AS/PP9YnZSNkM94oQvZqXCSwCrlpljYMEI=; b=Q2AprAThEnpkEQsN4I+x250XRI5T78Al3UFfd6CjBSUIMaOa/K++YlITgtY+hTMdrp kgSg7uipDOcyy2y8n2MQiPNOXQ3432YnkEDN1RYtK1AlVgzdbEfOq/HtTnrjbqjjFolw P5l0DIPmRDqqP+QfYkoTOJD+ffLyVeuK64CkYnk9Q1UWddN5OeHZy8eaej8HXO2EfL0X Jk0KjQVUok9lXcyo+XhgRCL6Bk1vK9R7+DxZx7CiyjVA9yRXgmJJlBW979vueSw0jCNC sxuvNLMzYq5xPuQZkVeziNzHOt2w3PYtyJESC6xXhOIryRXR0ZVpUuqbLIjAmyT81lIR btzw== Received: by 10.236.152.98 with SMTP id c62mr3559431yhk.35.1338087975634; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:06:15 -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 v16sm10739774anh.22.2012.05.26.20.06.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 May 2012 20:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC19A24.2000103@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 22:06:12 -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> <4FC15692.9070507@gmail.com> <20120526233444.670274c8@digimed.co.uk> <4FC16492.5020603@gmail.com> <20120527012105.284de0e6@khamul.example.com> <4FC17238.4020605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 425308b2-e3af-4e63-8cb7-5c76620c45ba X-Archives-Hash: cb4c51d8caccc5d2a6abb57d547956eb Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On May 27, 2012 7:19 AM, "Dale" > >> What I was saying tho, since it appears to be needed now, since /var may >> not be mounted yet, it was created and is used during booting up. Since >> it is there, why not use it, even AFTER the system is booted. After >> all, the files are already there since they were put there during boot >> up. No need moving them and all that when they are already created and >> available. >> >> Plus, as someone said, I think it was you in another reply, what if /var >> fails to mount at all? At that point, it still works since /run is >> there already. Since /run is on tmpfs, if it fails to mount for some >> reason, you got issues already. ;-) >> >> I don't mind it being there, I just hope udev, or whatever else may use >> it later on, doesn't get memory hungry. Actually, maybe some other >> small directories could be placed there as well. The lock files would >> be a good one to start with. Just thinking. May want to duck tho. lol >> > > You mean /var/lock ? Hasn't it transmogrified to /run/lock now? > > Rgds, > Well, the /run/lock directory is there but there is nothing in it on mine. It does look to me like they would move the files from /var/lock, or any other lock files, there tho. They appear to be small here since it takes up so little space. root@fireball / # du -shc /var/lock/ 32K /var/lock/ 32K total root@fireball / # That would total up to be less than 300K for what is there and /var/lock on my machine. I dunno. Just makes sense to me. 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"