On 12/28/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently installed qemu; when I launch it I get this message:
>
> "You do not have enough space in '/dev/shm' for the 450 MB of QEMU virtual 
> RAM.
> To have more space available provided you have enough RAM and swap, do as 
> root:
> umount /dev/shm
> mount -t tmpfs -o size=466m none /dev/shm"
>
> OK, it works; so in order to avoid doing this every time i added
> "size=466m" to the options column of fstab. It seems to work allright but
> for the fact that then firefox does not work anymore: I can launch it, but
> then it freezes.
>
> And then if I issue by hand these commands, firefox is as usual again!
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Here's my fstab's tmpfs line:
> .................................
> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
> # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
> # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
> #  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
> shm     /dev/shm  tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,size=466m   0 0
> ................................
>
> tia,
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Leaving out the noexec option?

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  Andres

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