From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mp0 ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by ms11 with LMTPS id ALM2NCZU118sbAAA0tVLHw (envelope-from ) for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:01:42 +0000 Received: from aspmx1.migadu.com ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by mp0 with LMTPS id yLkCMCZU1187OAAA1q6Kng (envelope-from ) for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:01:42 +0000 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by aspmx1.migadu.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96BCD940463 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:36304 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kokb3-0008Tz-KD for larch@yhetil.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:56:49 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kokam-0008SQ-Gc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:56:32 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kokam-0005cX-1e; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:56:32 -0500 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=39772 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kokak-0002Z0-BA; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:56:30 -0500 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: luhux Subject: Re: Provide an option to specify the tmpfs size of the container References: X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 Frimaire an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:56:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: (luhux@outlook.com's message of "Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:58:39 +0000") Message-ID: <87mtygvhgy.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.81 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 96BCD940463 X-Spam-Score: -2.81 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: 7foincC2EMw0 Hi, luhux skribis: > I am using guix environment --container to containerize my programming en= vironment and runtime environment, but I found that the container / created= by this command uses tmpfs and cannot be resized. > > When a file in the container outputs a lot of logs to the tmpfs of the co= ntainer, the memory usage of the host will be very high (this is usually so= mething I did not expect) > > So can provide an option to specify the size of tmpfs? Sure, why not. Would you like to give it a try? In the meantime, you can use =E2=80=98--share=E2=80=99 so the logs are stor= ed on disk. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.