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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
To: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base-files: Add /run/lock as a standard directory
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 20:50:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399668891.22845.1@mail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536D3C0F.1040605@windriver.com>

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com> 
wrote:
> 
> Certain system configurations may require parts of the /run 
> filesystem to not always be on tmpfs.  (Some situations where you 
> have a lot of disk, but limited ram for instance..  using tmpfs will 
> potentially put your system into a low memory state, or you might not 
> have enough tmpfs to run the system properly.)

I understand not doing /tmp-on-tmpfs, but /run?  Fix the parts of 
userspace that are allocating significant memory there.

And if you're really not mounting /run as tmpfs, I hope you're ensuring 
it's emptied immediately after mounting.

>  /run is one of the directories that needs to be investigated.  Is 
> there actually anything there that may be desirable to persist from 
> one boot to the next?

No.  It not being persistent is part of the API contract.
http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/



      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-08 23:24 [PATCH] base-files: Add /run/lock as a standard directory Mark Hatle
2014-05-09  9:16 ` Burton, Ross
2014-05-09 15:14   ` Mark Hatle
2014-05-09 15:31     ` Saul Wold
2014-05-09 15:50       ` Mark Hatle
2014-05-09 19:41     ` Colin Walters
2014-05-09 20:35       ` Mark Hatle
2014-05-09 20:50         ` Colin Walters [this message]

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