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The_Great_Sephiroth
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 Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 5:38 pm Post subject: Strange tmpfs mounts? |
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What's going on here? I seem to have two tmpfs mounts I did not create and are not in fstab.
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none 3.9G 12K 3.9G 1% /run/user/1001
none 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /run/user/1000
none on /run/user/1001 type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=700,uid=1001)
none on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=700,uid=1000)
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What is creating these? I use tmpfs for /tmp with a size of 1GiB. I do not know how these are being created.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Consolekit or systemd-logind are creating them to help with seats.
Currently consolekit default is half physical memory, and systemd-logind is 1/10th. They should be harmless unless you have unruly users filling it up with garbage but they could also be malloc'ing garbage as well so no different. They should be removed upon logout along with your session cgroup.
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a way to reduce the size? The laptop user got a system with 8GB of RAM to run multiple VirtualBox VMs. This can hamper that and I do not see why it is needed.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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The_Great_Sephiroth,
tmpfs sets a maximum size, its not allocated until its used.
It has a size option which you can set at mount time, or lateter with | Code: | | mount -o remount,size=... |
I need that if libreoffice and firefox build together in my tmpfs.
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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If you were using systemd/logind then editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf
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RuntimeDirectorySize=10% |
will change logind's behavior. Consolekit, I'm not sure, but as Neddy says, it will not eat 4GB until someone sticks 4GB into that directory, and if they do, they also could malloc 4GB and waste RAM that way as well.
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The_Great_Sephiroth
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OK then, I am good. I don't use systemd. This is why I use Gentoo, the choice to use OpenRC.
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Yeah I figured as much; I posted in case people were interested in the same problem and actually had systemd.
In any case it looks like Consolekit is deficient and requires a code patch to have adjustable runtime dir (or the workaround as Neddy suggested). You'll need root to remount unfortunately, and will need to readjust every time the user logs in. So, code patch is the best way to permanently fix this.
Its current default is because the default for any tmpfs is half physical memory.
BTW if you're using Consolekit/systemd-logind the environment variable $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR will point to this tmpfs.
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