Recent KDE build will fail - solution

Zbigniew Luszpinski zbiggy at o2.pl
Wed Jan 12 01:35:04 CET 2011


> Dnia 2011-01-12, o godz. 01:19:32
> 
> Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> napisał(a):
> > > Dnia 2011-01-12, o godz. 00:54:16
> > > 
> > > Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> napisał(a):
> > > >[...]
> > > >
> > > > 2. at oxygen-icons module you will receive flood of disk full
> > > > errors. This happens because of fault in Lunar's /tmp download
> > > > dir size configuration. It is set to 256M where oxygen-icons have
> > > > 277M size. So oxygen-icons will not fit /tmp disk space even if
> > > > empty. Simpty up to now there was no such big module to download.
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > have a nice day,
> > > > Zbigniew Luszpinski
> > > 
> > > Thank you for informations.
> > > 
> > > What is the reason of setting /tmp size to just 256 MB? Why not
> > > 512?
> > 
> > To be big enough to do Lunar build tasks and not too big to fail on
> > servers with small amount of RAM. Increasing it to 320MB continues
> > the tradition of being big enough and solves current issue with some
> > security margin.
> > 
> > have a nice day,
> > Zbigniew Luszpinski
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> 
> Thanks. I was just wondering if it is unwise to set the value
> permanently to 512 MB, which is what I had done due to other problem.
> Looks like it is safe. :)

Any bigger size than 256 is save as long as you plan your physical memory 
wisely (to avoid swapping to hdd or running out of mem due to big files 
stored in tmpfs).

have a nice day,
Zbigniew Luszpinski


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