Re: tmpfs trash the system

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 23:09:39 EST

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On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Ivan Kalvatchev wrote:

> mount tmpfs /mnt/tmp -o tmpfs
> dd if=/dev/zero if=/mnt/tmp/test

So you let tmpfs fill up all memory and swap...

mount -t tmpfs -o nr_blocks=<SIZE> none /mnt/tmp

Where <SIZE> is the maximum size of tmpfs, in pages.

regards,

Rik

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