On 2011-05-18, annathemerm...@hush.com <annathemerm...@hush.com> wrote: >> In -current it has been bumped to 2GB so you'll be able to use >> more there. > > A bit below, but now it works. I'm quite happy with stable. Unless > current fixes my X11 keyboard issues, I'd rather not deal with > current unless I have a second hard disk to play with. I suppose if > I ever temporarily need more space in /tmp I'll just have to set up > a softlink to /var/tmp or somewhere. > > However, is there any way to get mfs to use swap first rather than > memory first?
I don't think so. (And afaik mfs doesn't give memory back once you've used it, at least without umounting). > If I tell xorg.conf to use kbd > or akbd, it doens't work at all, but if I tell it to use keyboard, > sometimes it randomly decides not to notice that I've pressed > certain keys, and is particularly reluctant to recognize the > backspace key. Sometimes, it becomes convinced I am holding a key > down even when I am not: this is particularly annoying when it > thinks I'm holding the down arrow key. None of these issues occur > when not running X.org. This sounds rather like the behaviour you get when you need to disable /dev/ttyC0 (see /usr/X11R6/README).
