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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by JetSpiegel on Sunday August 06, 2017 @05:23PM (#14943627)
But with only 1 GB capacity
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by glandium on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:47PM (#14944142)
It depends on your setup. The default when no size is given is to use half the RAM.
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by colejohnson66 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:22PM (#14944486)
Half? That seems kind of excessive. Are you sure that’s right?
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by Sidnicious on Sunday August 06, 2017 @09:02PM (#14944610)
I would guess that it’s given that capacity, but the memory is allocated lazily.
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:26AM (#14946686)
Correct; tmpfs only uses as much memory as as is used by the files it contains.
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