[arch-general] swap and tmpfs

[Sean Greenslade]

On April 23, 2015 9:52:11 AM CDT Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>this line in fstab
>
>$ grep tmp /etc/fstab 
>tmpfs   /tmp         tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,size=3G          0  0
>
>usually is commented out. One time it was needed, when building a
>kernel failed. Today building Firefox failed. I'll try with 3G
>again, instead of half of the memory (1.9G), after a restart, to safely
>clean tmp first.
>
>I suspect that if the RAM size doesn't fit, swap isn't used?!
>

To be clear, swap is used for tmpfs if available ram is exhausted. The tmpfs still obeys the mount option for max size regardless.

--Sean


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