[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#630615: Bug#630615: Defaults of tmpfs on /tmp redux

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 24 May 2012, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> 64 MiB seems a ridiculously low threshold. How about 512MiB instead?
> I'd find it difficult to use a desktop machine with less than 1GB of
> RAM and think that reserving 20% of that limited RAM for /tmp is not

tmpfs reserves nothing of the sort.  It can use UP TO that ammount of
_virtual_ memory, which is very different from "reserving".

That said, 128 or 256MiB would probably be a better threshold.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh