Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 18:38, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2025 03:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 18:38, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2025 03:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/25/25 2:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2025 03:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Charles Dennett
On 2/25/25 5:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't want to be bothered seeing. I am trying to figure out how to use the exclude type option, but I have not figured it out, nor is google giving me guidance Wow, hadn't u

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 17:51, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/25/25 2:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/25/25 17:52, Charles Dennett wrote: On 2/25/25 5:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't want to be bothered seeing. I am trying to figure out how to use the exclude type option, but I have not figured it out, nor is google g

Re: F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Bob Marčan via users
On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:46:24 -0500 "Robert Moskowitz" wrote: > I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time > it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I > last got a 500GB.  but anyway. > > Some 10 tmpfs mou

F41 - df command showing lots of tmpfs

2025-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I use df command to see where I am on disk utilization. Well this time it won't be much of an issue, as I got a 1TB SSD for the same price I last got a 500GB.  but anyway. Some 10 tmpfs mounts in /run/credentials that I really don't want to be bothered seeing. I am trying to figu

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 November 2016, Robert Nichols sent: > With /tmp on disk, files are written initially to the buffer cache, and > get flushed out to disk when something else needs the RAM or, > eventually, by the automatic push of dirty buffer pages. For the latter > case, a copy of the

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/18/2016 03:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: What can I say? You are entitled to your opinions, as am I. Of course, but the problem is in how you are expressing that opinion. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send a

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/18/2016 03:13 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/18/2016 10:04 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> installation. I'm somewhat surprised that they actually gave us a >> relatively easy way to get around this stupid idea. I wish it were as >> easy to sh*tcan systemd and journalctl (two other really moronic,

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/18/2016 10:04 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: installation. I'm somewhat surprised that they actually gave us a relatively easy way to get around this stupid idea. I wish it were as easy to sh*tcan systemd and journalctl (two other really moronic, overly complicated and badly implemented ideas).

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/18/2016 12:04 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: The main problem for using a RAMdisk-based /tmp is that a hell of a lot of utilities still write temp files to /tmp and with its limited size, you often get "filesystem full" errors. Before you start on me,... Oh, no disagreement there. I come from a

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/18/2016 06:30 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 11/18/2016 07:39 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: >>> While tmpfs does utilize RAM it will actually move contents to swap >>> in the event RAM is >>> actually needed. >> >> So that's normal that my RAM l

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/18/2016 07:39 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: While tmpfs does utilize RAM it will actually move contents to swap in the event RAM is actually needed. So that's normal that my RAM looks full (in top) and the swap and /tmp are empty. This means that I still have about 8Gb free RAM avai

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Frédéric Bron
> While tmpfs does utilize RAM it will actually move contents to swap in the > event RAM is > actually needed. So that's normal that my RAM looks full (in top) and the swap and /tmp are empty. This means that I still have about 8Gb free RAM available, right? I am happy then. Th

Re: Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Ed Greshko
dn't be much of an issue. While tmpfs does utilize RAM it will actually move contents to swap in the event RAM is actually needed. If you're really concerned about tmpfs you can always force it to use real disk by doing a systemctl mask tmp.mount and rebooting. You can then choos

Howto reduce the size of /tmp as tmpfs?

2016-11-18 Thread Frédéric Bron
/tmp uses 8 Gb, that is half of my RAM. Then my RAM is fully occupied as soon as I open Plasma+Firefox+Thunderbird. But /tmp is used at 1% only. Can I reduce it to 4Gb? I do not see any entry in /etc/fstab (have F24). Thanks, Frédéric ___ users mailing l

Re: tmpfs

2014-12-27 Thread Jim Lewis
;> it is a standard default feature and not new to the release. There >>> might be some documentation needed for users who *don't* want tmp to >>> be on /tmpfs. If the standard docs don't cover that, a RFE should be >>> filed. >>> >>> Rah

Re: tmpfs

2014-12-27 Thread Rex Dieter
ure and not new to the release. There >> might be some documentation needed for users who *don't* want tmp to >> be on /tmpfs. If the standard docs don't cover that, a RFE should be >> filed. >> >> Rahul > > tmpfs was targeted at Fedora 18, and still

Re: tmpfs

2014-12-26 Thread Frank Murphy
ight be some documentation needed for users who *don't* want tmp to > be on /tmpfs. If the standard docs don't cover that, a RFE should be > filed. > > Rahul tmpfs was targeted at Fedora 18, and still here. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs But, I have not found

Re: tmpfs

2014-12-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I thought I would try having /tmp as a tmpfs. It's not mentioned in the > Fedora 21 docs. Is this because: > > o It worked so well (beginning in Fedora 18) that it's standard practice? > Whether it worked wel

Re: tmpfs

2014-12-26 Thread Flavio Leitner
On Friday, December 26, 2014 02:26:34 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I thought I would try having /tmp as a tmpfs. It's not mentioned in the > Fedora 21 docs. Is this because: > > o It worked so well (beginning in Fedora 18) that it's standard practice? > o It was a bad id

tmpfs

2014-12-26 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I thought I would try having /tmp as a tmpfs. It's not mentioned in the Fedora 21 docs. Is this because: o It worked so well (beginning in Fedora 18) that it's standard practice? o It was a bad idea, and is no longer used? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Dennis Kaptain wrote: > Rick Stevens suggested "systemctl mask tmp.mount" as a fix. I tried > that and then I couldn't log in. It turns out, that command will make > my / partition read only. Following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs#Release_Notes

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
k access wait time is caused by accessing /tmp when I > > need to rather than swapping tmpfs in and out for a program. > > Swapping tmpfs files to swap is no more of a performance killer than > writing /tmp to disk to begin with (the same data would be written to > the same disk, j

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > It still doesn't seem like an ideal way to handle /tmp when I have a > perfectly good partition and swapping is a major performance killer. > I'd rather disk access wait time is caused by accessing /tmp when I > need to rather than

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 08 August 2014, Dennis Kaptain sent: > Rick Stevens suggested "systemctl mask tmp.mount" as a fix. I tried > that and then I couldn't log in. That sounds like a very old problem. I encountered that, many years ago, when I swapped hard drives on a PC. Check the permissio

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Anthony Messina
On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:32:15 AM Dennis Kaptain wrote: > So, how do I turn off fedora's tmpfs forever so I can use my physical > /tmp partition and not consume all my valuable RAM? Or stated > otherwise, how do I disable tmpfs AND keep / read-write? systemctl mask tmp.mount -

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Dennis Kaptain
2014-08-08 10:46 GMT-05:00 Chris Adams : > Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: >> While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy >> of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will >> consume 50% of my RAM and mount itse

Re: how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dennis Kaptain said: > While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy > of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will > consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of > RAM I suppose you'

how to disable tmpfs

2014-08-08 Thread Dennis Kaptain
While lurking on the list, I learned in a thread "Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b" that the way fedora is configured, tmpfs will consume 50% of my RAM and mount itself in /tmp. If you have gobs of RAM I suppose you'd never miss it unless you are doing serious video editi