* Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?
@ 2012-05-27 7:59 99% ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2012-05-27 7:59 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sun, 27 May 2012 09:05:46 +0200
Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have read through all replies, but I still did not find
> answers to my original questions:
>
> Q1: Can I somehow reduce the size of /run? I know it is tmpfs
> and I know this is upper limit normally never achieved, but
> I want to reduce this upper limit. Is it possible, or is it
> hard-coded to half of physical memory?
I think this works IIRC:
List it in /etc/fstab. Max size goes in the options field using the
syntax described in man mount
> Q2: Can I turn this "/run in tmpfs" feature off? I do not
> see *any* advantage in vasting memory for /run (although
> I agree there might be some point in moving "run" from
> /var/run to /run). But I see one big problem:
If if limit the tmpfs to say 100M or so then this is not a problem at
all
>
> If badly written application starts writing some crap in
> /run, it could deadlock my computer quite easily. And before
> you ask, no it is not so easy to do with /run on hard-drive
> because I have plenty of TB there and monitoring software
> running which alerts me as soon as any partition is half
> full. Unfortunatelly this does not work for tmpfs because
> with given read/write speed of ram-disk it would be full
> in a few seconds before I had any chance to act...
>
> Jarry
>
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Alan McKinnnon
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