Linux - set tmpfs ram size rather than overall size

Asked Oct 09 '16 at 09:20

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I have the following setup on my server:

16G RAM 64G swap

I want to setup a tmpfs partition with the following options:

use up to 50% RAM (8G)
have the total size of tmpfs 8G + swap size = 72G

In other words, I want the first 8G of data in tmpfs go to memory, and anything above that to be written to disk.

Is this possible?

The options I found in tmpfs docs and fstab examples only allowed me to limit the total size of the filesystem. So if I set it to a large number, it may eat up all my available ram. If I set it to a smaller number, it won't eat up the ram, but there may not be enough space for the application needs.

thanks!

asked Oct 09 '16 at 09:20

Karolis

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You can't control this. You can only choose a total size. – Michael Hampton Oct 09 '16 at 10:16
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What exactly are you trying to accomplish here? There's likely a more functional way to go about it. – Spooler Oct 09 '16 at 10:24
thanks @MichaelHampton, if you post this as an answer I will accept it. – Karolis Oct 17 '16 at 07:43

Linux - set tmpfs ram size rather than overall size

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