Subject: Re: [vserver] Memory limit problem (solved)
From: "Petar Hitij" <petahi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:02:34 +0200

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ben Green <ben@bristolwireless.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 21:47:48 +0100, Petar Hitij <petahi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Sam,
>>The 16MB fstab entry is allocated in RAM, increasing it to 300MB is
>> not a very good idea.
>>It would be better to comment out the /tmp line in
>> /etc/vservers/vserver_name/fstab.
>>Regards
>> Petar
>
> I thought tmpfs only grew when it needed to. Certainly not noticed any huge memory
drain for the guest I run with 256MB or even 512MB tmpfs.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS
>
>
> --
>  From Ben Green
>

I was not aware of that. I still don't like it. Having a small and
empty swap space gives me a nice and fuzzy feeling.
regards
Petar