Recommended memory size for F19?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Apr 11 11:51:16 UTC 2013


Le Mer 10 avril 2013 22:52, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:55:59PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Disable /tmp on tmpfs?
>
> I have suggested this should be done automatically in RAM-limited
> situations (primarily for VMs):
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858265
>
> Well, ideally it would never have been done in the first place, but we
> are where we are.

Ideally it should never have been done without some automated way to grow
swap via files in /var/tmp when the tmpfs gets saturated (and possibly
shrink it back when the pressure ceases). That's the only way to get the
benefits of a ramdisk without hitting mem limits at unexpected moments.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot



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