Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/21/2011 07:37 AM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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> On Sunday, 2011-11-20 at 23:19 -0500, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
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> > On 11/20/2011 07:17 PM, Cristian Rodríguez pecked at the keyboard and
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> > > On 20/11/11 20:53, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > > > Having those 370M (I hope shared between all of them) it is an
> > > > issue for me, because this test system is a virtual machine on
> > > > VMplayer, with only "756944k" of RAM.
> > >
> > > No, it is not. it is the default tmpfs size, (half of your ram not
> > > counting swap) that space IS NOT reserved, it is a "hint" to the
> > > maximum size that can be allocated.
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> > > > But I don't see why it is needed. Are there that many mounts per
> > > > minute so that we need to run the /media on ram?
> > >
> > > it is to ease software maintenance, and uses no ram since it is empty.
> >
> > As in easier to use then "zypper up package1"? What is so fubar'd that
> > some other form of package management is now needed?
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> We are not talking package management in this thread.

Sorry for the noise, I guess I just don't understand the logic here.

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Ken Schneider
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