RE: "Out of memory" problems and tmpfs

tmpfs only uses as much space as it needs. There is a way to configure the maximum -- it sounds like 8MB is too big for the H3100.

According to Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt, you can pass options at mount time to configure size. size=4m would limit it to 4MB. You can add this to /etc/fstab.

Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron F [mailto:newbdev_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:47 PM
> To: familiar_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: [Familiar] "Out of memory" problems and tmpfs
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've tried the 2.4.16 and 2.4.17 kernel packages on my
> 3135 and appreciate the better time keeping and the
> non-volatile ram disk. Unfortunately, various
> applications like rxvt, dillo, xstroke, gtk-menu and
> even sometimes the whole window manager(ion) seemed to
> crash spontaneously. After checking the dump of the
> dmesg command, I find "Out of memory, killing ..."
> messages detailing that some process(the kernel?) is
> killing my X programs, apparently because it is out of
> memory. I suspect this may be a side effect of having
> tmpfs eat a large percentage of the 16 MB on my 3135.
> The df command indicates it takes up around 8 MB.
>
> Is tmpfs really taking up 8MB or does it automatically
> resize itself to take up only as much memory as
> necessary, like the old ramfs did? How do you
> configure the size of tmpfs? By default, it seems to
> be 8 MB.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Ron
>
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Received on Tue Feb 26 2002 - 13:47:01 EST