[Bug 792335] New: tmpfs allocates excessive amount of memeory
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=792335 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=792335#c0 Summary: tmpfs allocates excessive amount of memeory Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Curt.Blank@curtronics.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 tmpfs filsystems allocate excessive memory. i.e. devtmpfs 16G 84K 16G 1% /dev tmpfs 16G 68K 16G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 16G 1.2M 16G 1% /run tmpfs 16G 1.2M 16G 1% /var/lock tmpfs 16G 1.2M 16G 1% /var/run tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /media Provide a configuration variable whereby the user can specify the memory amount to be used such as size=12%. Yes 16G of memory is not really used but if some process goes amuck and starts writing to one of those mount points it could be used possibly degrading system performance. There is no need to set the maximum that high and should be considered best practice not to. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. 3. Actual Results: Excessive amount of memory allocated to tmpfs file systems. Expected Results: Excessive amount of memory allocated to tmpfs file systems. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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