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by glandium 3238 days ago
It depends on your setup. The default when no size is given is to use half the RAM.
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colejohnson66 3237 days ago
Half? That seems kind of excessive. Are you sure that’s right?
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Sidnicious 3237 days ago
I would guess that it’s given that capacity, but the memory is allocated lazily.
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yjftsjthsd-h 3237 days ago
Correct; tmpfs only uses as much memory as as is used by the files it contains.
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