Re: [headache] 3.7.0-rc2 can't handle mutt (with 3.7G mail file) +FF(4 tabs) on a 4G memory+4 core system ?

[Luming Yu]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Luming Yu <luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Ortwin GlÃck <odi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 08.11.2012 14:28, Luming Yu wrote:
>>>
>>> As I just noticed that I couldn't quit from mutt due to tmpfs is full.
>>
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>> That's also pointing towards high memory pressure.
>
> watch "cat /proc/meminfo" just showed me the progress
> mutt  was creating a very large tmp file in /tmp/ until  "memfree" reached a
> watermark then failed with a message like " no space in /tmp"
>
> sounds like I can't use mutt if my mutt mail file is close to the
> physical memory
> I have when tmp-on-tmpfs is enabled..
>
> hmm....make sens? maybe we can't use tmp-on-tmpfs feature in f18
but why not having disk to backup tmpfs under memory pressure?
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