RE: "Out of memory" problems and tmpfs

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:47, Hicks, Jamey wrote:
> 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.

I'm not so sure that tmpfs works as advertised (or maybe I just don't
understand the advertising :). I got lots of OOM errors on my 3765
until I reduced the tmpfs "maximum" size ... and I would get the errors
even when df showed tmpfs empty. Does it never release ram once it
claims it? Are there ways that tmp space can get allocated that aren't
visible (i.e. what could I have done that would have grown tmpfs without
my being aware of it? does ipkg do this somehow?)

Thanks
b.g.
Received on Tue Feb 26 18:35:05 2002