On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:38:03PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:01:42PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > With the transition to /run and /run/lock as tmpfs filesystems, it > > would be desirable to provide sensible default size limits. Currently, > > we default to the tmpfs default of ½ RAM. But with several tmpfs > > filesystems, this does have the potential for the system to be OOMed > > by a user filling up more than one of the filesystems. A sensible > > default size limit would be useful here, for at least some of the > > filesystems. > > > > We currently allow specification of size limits for: > > /run (RUN_SIZE) > > /run/lock (LOCK_SIZE, optional) > > /dev/shm (SHM_SIZE) > > /tmp (TMP_SIZE, optional) > > > > [from temporary git repo at http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=summary] > > > > In order to default to a sensible size, I would appreciate it if I > > could have some figures for the useage of these filesystems: e.g. > > > > % sudo du -sk /var/run /var/lock /dev/shm > > OK, some results: > > /var/run /var/lock /dev/shm > Min 9 0 0 > 5% percentile 60 0 0 > Mean 886 9 599 > Median 120 8 0 > 95% percentile 612 17 310 > Max 47696 52 80744 Following the discussion yesterday, I'd like to propose doing something like the example below. It's possible to size a tmpfs as a percentage of core memory, the default being -o size=50%. Rather than setting an absolute value, we can size e.g. /run as a percentage of total memory, which should scale with /run usage better than a fixed value. Proposal: Switch the default for all tmpfs mounts from 50% to 20%; it's still very large, but you have to mount many more to be able to break your system. /run: Use 10% core. This gives 102MiB on 1GiB system; the largest observed user used 50MiB. Even a system with 512MiB would not have hit the observed maximum, and that was a very large system with presumably more memory than this. /run/lock and /lib/init/rw: 5MiB each. More than plenty, but far less than current usage. /run/shm: No default (use general tmpfs default of 20%) /tmp: No default (use general tmpfs default of 20%) Regards, Roger ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [/etc/default/tmpfs] # Defaults for tmpfs filesystems mounted in early boot, before # filesystems from /etc/fstab are mounted. # # _SIZE variables are the maximum size (in bytes) that tmpfs # filesystems can use. The size will be rounded down to a multiple of # the page size, 4096 bytes. If no size is set, TMPFS_SIZE will be # used as the default. _MODE variables are the initial access # permissions for the root of the tmpfs mount. If no mode is set, # TMPFS_MODE will be used as the default. # TMPFS_SIZE: maximum size for all tmpfs filesystems if no specific # size is provided. If no value is provided here, the kernel default # will be used. TMPFS_SIZE=20% TMPFS_MODE=755 # RUN_SIZE: maximum size of /run (/var/run) # # Defaults to 10% core memory; the size required varies widely # depending upon the demands of the software being run; this heuristic # scales /run usage on system size. Samba in particular has been seen # to use at least 50MiB in a large heavily used server. Typical usage # is hundreds of KiB, maximum is tens of MiB. RUN_SIZE=10% RUN_MODE=755 # LOCK_SIZE: maximum size of /run/lock (/var/lock) # # Typical usage: tens of KiB; maximum hundreds of KiB. Default of # 5MiB should ensure the limit is never reached. LOCK_SIZE=5242880 # 5MiB LOCK_MODE=1777 # SHM_SIZE: maximum size of /run/shm (/dev/shm) # # No default size; the size required varies widely depending upon the # demands of the software being run. SHM_SIZE= SHM_MODE=1777 # TMP_SIZE: maximum size of /tmp # # No default size. TMP_SIZE= TMP_MODE=1777 # RW_SIZE: maximum size of /lib/init/rw # # Note /lib/init/rw is deprecated and programs using is are migrating # to use /run. It will be removed once all users have migrated to # /run. # Typical usage: tens of KiB. Default of 5MiB should ensure the limit # is never reached. RW_SIZE=5242880 # 5 MiB RW_MODE=755 -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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