[ale] tmpfs resizing?

Robert L. Harris nomad at rdlg.net
Fri Dec 7 07:32:22 EST 2007


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That would fit.  My system has 2Gigs of RAM and has 1 Gig tmpfs.  I'm
running VMWare and nothing else.  I need to put about 1.5Gig in tmpfs
for VMWare to behave itself properly it seems.

Robert


Brian Pitts wrote:
> Isn't the size of a tmpfs initially small, then dynamically increased as
> needed and shrunk when possible? I think the size option to mount sets a
> hard limit on growth, with the default being half of memory.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
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>>   Anyone using tmpfs for /tmp?  I mounted mine and it's working well but
>> I would like to make it a bit larger.  Has anyone figured out how to
>> make tmpfs larger or smaller than default?
>>
>> Robert
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