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- From: Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
- To: Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
- Cc: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>, 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 11:42:11 -0400
Can't we just disable tmpfs for these spells somewhere? I don't want a huge
swapfile created like that on my system. I'd prefer that when these spells
cast tmpfs is not used. I like tmpfs though and use it for everything else.
Jeremy
Quoting Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>:
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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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Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: [SM-Sorcery] Sorcery API,
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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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