8GB Ram, but only 4 for / filesys?

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8GB Ram, but only 4 for / filesys?

Post#1 by att » 06 Jan 2016, 14:05

Hello,

My machine: Intel Q6600, 8GB Ram. Distro used: Porteus 3.0 64bit.

bash-4.2# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8182944 5639792 2543152 0 448284 4486676
-/+ buffers/cache: 704832 7478112
Swap: 0 0 0

bash-4.2# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs 4.7G 372M 4.4G 8% /
devtmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev
/mnt/live/run 4.0G 697M 3.3G 18% /run
/dev/sda1 40G 10G 31G 25% /mnt/sda1

So my "/" main aufs RAM filesystem leaves me with only 4.7GB ram?
Is there any boot option to tell Porteus to use a larger amount of memory for the "/" aufs file system?

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Re: 8GB Ram, but only 4 for / filesys?

Post#2 by Bogomips » 06 Jan 2016, 14:56

ramsize=(70%,80%?), if not saving changes: http://www.porteus.org/component/conten ... -them.html
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB

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Re: 8GB Ram, but only 4 for / filesys?

Post#3 by att » 06 Jan 2016, 15:58

Thanks! That helped a lot!

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