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- From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
- To: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
- Cc: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>, Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>
- Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:25:45 -0000
Seth, you can be sure that the anti-tmpfs people are snickering at the
contortions the anti-anti-tmpfs people are going through ;)
Should be doable, just a check in mk_source_dir to make sure there's
enough memory.
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 04:24, Seth Woolley wrote:
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> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> > 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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