https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmpfs
Have a look there.
just do "df -h" in terminal to see where tmpfs is being used.
here's mine so you have something to compare it to.
Code:Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 972M 0 972M 0% /dev tmpfs 197M 5.4M 192M 3% /run /dev/sda1 110G 4.7G 100G 5% / tmpfs 983M 12M 971M 2% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 983M 0 983M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 197M 48K 197M 1% /run/user/1000
Last edited by kerry_s; June 1st, 2015 at 08:50 AM.
"none" means there's no physical disk partition.
This whole thing about disabling tmpfs doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe you should just try removing stuff you don't need. Do you really need brltty? Do you print? (if not, get rid of cups) Do you scan? (if not, get rid of saned) Do you need speech-dispatcher? Etc. etc. etc.
Here's my Debian sid system with xfce, firefox, audacious running:
Code:# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 779M 696K 779M 1% /run /dev/sda1 52G 15G 35G 30% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 2.0G 92K 2.0G 1% /tmp /dev/sda3 404G 283G 100G 74% /media/something tmpfs 390M 4.0K 390M 1% /run/user/1000 # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3893 2209 1684 13 94 1442 -/+ buffers/cache: 672 3221 Swap: 3814 0 3814
i don't think he should go that far.
it's got to be something he installed, not standard to the base os.
i suspect chromium/chrome extensions, i tried chromium, it's screwy you can't even enable hardware accel.
so i grabbed chrome, with chrome the hardware accel fix works fine. but it is gobbling up some memory still. i can see in the task manager the extensions are using the most & i only have 2, ublock & flash control.
Okay, I owned someone the output of "free" once my computer starts lagging, I will still be owning that.
Problem is, I switched to Firefox to see if I could blame chrome as you guys are saying.
It turns out that no. Firefox seems more stable at first, but then when it crashes, it crashes harder. Chromium normally gives trouble with several pages open, but Firefox screws up with just some few, as long as one of them is "heavy" (e.g. if Google Drive or GMail are open, I can only have max 5 tabs, even if the other tabs are just plain text). This is very random though, sometimes it runs okay for a longer time. But when fills up the memory, I cannot even use a terminal. Trying to change to TTY may take about 5min to give me access to a laggy command line. I just get tired and do a hard reboot instead. That's not healthy.
I'm not sure if you guys can keep on trying to blame the browser (I bear no love for chrome or firefox, but I don't think its their fault). I will uninstall altogheter the flash plugin (even though chrome has its own and firefox had it "always ask" to enable) and see if anything changes, but I am unconvinced that the problem is the software.
Many years have gone.
I still haven't figured out how to disable TMPFS. There are 2347895023498256093487523 explanations on how to do that with systemd but I can't find any for upstart.
My computer keeps on freezing and swapping all the time. I have tried using Firefox or Chromium.
So tell me guys, should I just give up Ubuntu, is that what will solve my problem?
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