Re: [RFC PATCH] base-files: Increase /var/volatile size

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

Ping. Have we come to any agreement on this one?


On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 03:19:08PM +0000, Dmytriyenko, Denys wrote:
> Karthik,
> 
> The reason it was limited to 16MB in early days is because we had platforms 
> with only 32MB of RAM and letting tmpfs fill up uncontrollable was dangerous 
> and was making the system very unstable.
> 
> One of the options is to have per-machine RAM/tmpfs setting, which can get 
> propagated to /etc/fstab accordingly - e.g. 32/64 for am335x/am437 and 
> 64/128 for dra7xx, etc.
> 
> -- 
> Denys
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meta-arago-bounces@arago-project.org [mailto:meta-arago-bounces@arago-project.org] On Behalf Of R, Karthik
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:31 AM
> To: meta-arago@arago-project.org
> Subject: [meta-arago] [RFC PATCH] base-files: Increase /var/volatile size
> 
> * Weston applications allocate memory from tmpfs, need to
>   increase the tmpfs area to atleast 50M. Can this be
>   increased more - what are the pros/cons?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karthik Ramanan <a0393906@ti.com>
> ---
>  .../recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab       |    2 +-
>  .../base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappend          |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab
> index 9ed6f33..8ddadd9 100644
> --- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/fstab
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0  0
>  devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0  0
>  usbdevfs             /proc/bus/usb        usbdevfs   noauto                0  0
>  tmpfs                /run                 tmpfs      mode=0755,nodev,nosuid,strictatime 0  0
> -tmpfs                /var/volatile        tmpfs      defaults,size=16M     0  0
> +tmpfs                /var/volatile        tmpfs      defaults,size=50M     0  0
>  tmpfs                /media/ram           tmpfs      defaults,size=16M     0  0
>  
>  # uncomment this if your device has a SD/MMC/Transflash slot diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappend b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappend
> index 40b7722..956a057 100644
> --- a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappend
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bbappe
> +++ nd
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>  # look for files in this layer first
>  FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>  
> -PR_append = "-arago3"
> +PR_append = "-arago4"
> --
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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