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- From: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
- To: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
- Cc: Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>, sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:24:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Hamish Greig wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:36, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> > Hamish Greig wrote:
> > > TMPFS needs to be turned off (from the spell IMHO) for j2sdk or
> > > openoffice and others in the future ?
> >
> > Shouldn't be nesissary, look at the
> >
> > mk_source_dir line for OO (j2sdk is similar)
> >
> > 'mk_source_dir $SOURCE_DIRECTORY 4g &&'
> >
> > from http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517#c79 by Eric Sandall
> >
> > This will create the normal source directory under /usr/src, but will
> > have TMPFS set to use 4Gb.
> >
> > Here's the info from /var/lib/sorcery/modules/libgrimoire:334
> >
> > #---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ##=item mk_source_dir <directory name> [<size>]
> > ##
> > ## Creates a tmpfs filesystem. By default, the size is 1GB.
> > ## The caller may optionally supply a size argument.
> > ##
> > ## Example1: Create a 2GB mount at $SOURCE_DIRECTORY
> > ##
> > ## mk_source_dir $SOURCE_DIRECTORY 2g
> > ##
> > ## Example2: Create a mount at /tmp/newdir, defaults to 1GB size
> > ##
> > ## mk_source_dir /tmp/newdir
> > ##
> > #---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Geoff
> >
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> In a quick discussion yesterday ( i think Geoffrey might have been there?) i
> discovered that this only works if you have 4GB swap/RAM combined available.
> It will infact try to make a 4GB TMPFS part but if you only have 1.5GB
> swap+RAM it will fill it up , the kernel will start killing of processes and
> then the cast will fail... this is not a long term solution.
> Hamish
IDEA:
Dynamic swapfile creation to make up the difference. Remove after cast in
rm_source_dir.
...
I wonder if the anti-tmpfs crowd is watching... *looks around
suspiciously*.
Seth
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[SM-Grimoire] Sorcery API,
Chris Brien, 06/27/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] Sorcery API, Seth Woolley, 06/27/2003
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[SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Hamish Greig, 06/27/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Geoffrey Derber, 06/28/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Hamish Greig, 06/30/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Seth Woolley, 06/30/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API, Arwed von Merkatz, 06/30/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API, Dufflebunk, 06/30/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Jeremy Kolb, 06/30/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API, Seth Woolley, 06/30/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Seth Woolley, 06/30/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Hamish Greig, 06/30/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
Geoffrey Derber, 06/28/2003
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