On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:44:46 +0000, Dom <to...@rpdom.net> wrote: > On 28/11/11 18:07, Camaleón wrote: >> Hello,
>> I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little >> problematic. >> While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression >> for browsing the archive) the kernel source package (a ~75 MiB >> .tar.bz2 file) I got this error: >> http://picpaste.com/mc-error-YXdyRawO.gif >> My Atom based netbook is not a powerful system but has 2 GiB of ram >> and 250 hard disk so, what was happening? >> "df -H" told me: >> S.ficheros Tamaño Usado Disp Uso% Montado en /dev/sda2 247G 7,7G 239G >> 4% / tmpfs 5,3M 4,1k 5,3M 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 212M 664k 211M 1% >> /run tmpfs 5,3M 0 5,3M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 423M 423M 0 100% /tmp <--- >> here! udev 1,1G 0 1,1G 0% /dev tmpfs 423M 238k 423M 1% /run/shm >> Okay, so /tmp is full. Fine. I know how to solve it but I can foresee >> more situations like this in the future so some questions arise. As >> the current tmpfs default settings for /tmp seem a bit "unrealistic" >> (just % 20 of the RAM?) for even doing common tasks: >> 1/ How many room should be set for a "/tmp" partition? I never had it >> one so I can't make any good estimation. >> 2/ Would be better to simply disable tmpfs for "/tmp"? This is how >> I've been doing all these years. >> Any comments are welcome :-) > I don't use tmpfs for /tmp for a couple of reasons. > Firstly, some of my PCs don't have much RAM (as low as 32MB), so it's > just not practical, and on the others I sometimes store up to 4.7GB of > files to put on DVDs. > I know that I could create tmpfs filesystems bigger than that and they > would use swap when physical RAM is exceeded, but that would slow the > systems down to an almost unusable level. > I'd rather either not have /tmp as a separate file system, or allocate > at least 10GB to it. Disk is still cheaper than RAM, although slower. I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on /? Thanks, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehtnk702....@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
