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author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2022-08-02 10:35:05 +0200
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2022-08-02 10:35:05 +0200
commit3bf05e2f6447503517b7ccad832f083df50001e6 (patch)
treeef2b1e52ad01fba7da82bbdcb31d89490ca39263 /liveinit.tpl
parentfb08fcc819828d885f6e90f06fc4cd78f46842ac (diff)
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live init: optionally specify RAM % to use in the 'toram' parameter
toram= Generic syntax: toram=type[,memperc] - type: string value; os,core,all,none - memperc: integer value, percentage RAM to reserve for liveslak You can use a 'memperc' value for the 'toram' parameter to change the percentage RAM used by liveslak, which is 50% of all available RAM for normal operation. For instance when you have 128 GB of RAM, you can specify a much lower percentage to be reserved for liveslak. RAM will specifically be used if you run liveslak without persistence, which means that any changes are accumulating in RAM instead of on-disk. Example: Give liveslak ~6 GB (5%) to run the OS on a computer with 128 GB of RAM: 'toram=none,5'
Diffstat (limited to 'liveinit.tpl')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/liveinit.tpl b/liveinit.tpl
index d00650d..7194229 100644
--- a/liveinit.tpl
+++ b/liveinit.tpl
@@ -274,13 +274,29 @@ for ARG in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
VIRGIN=1 # prevent writes to disk since we are supposed to run from RAM
;;
toram=*)
+ # Generic syntax: toram=type[,memperc]
+ # type: string value; os,core,all,none
+ # memperc: integer value, percentage RAM to reserve for liveslak
+ # You can use this parameter to change the percentage RAM
+ # used by liveslak, which is 50% for normal operation.
+ # For instance when you have an insane amount of RAM, you can specify
+ # a much lower percentage to be reserved for liveslak:
+ # toram=none,12
TORAM=1
- if [ "$(echo $ARG | cut -f2 -d=)" = "os" ]; then
+ TRTYPE="$(echo $ARG |cut -f2 -d= |cut -f1 -d,)"
+ if [ "$TRTYPE" = "os" ]; then
VIRGIN=0 # load OS modules into RAM, write persistent data to disk
- elif [ "$(echo $ARG | cut -f2 -d=)" = "core" ]; then
+ elif [ "$TRTYPE" = "core" ]; then
CORE2RAM=1 # load Core OS modules into RAM
- elif [ "$(echo $ARG | cut -f2 -d=)" = "all" ]; then
+ elif [ "$TRTYPE" = "all" ]; then
VIRGIN=1 # prevent writes to disk since we are supposed to run from RAM
+ elif [ "$TRTYPE" = "none" ]; then
+ TORAM=0 # we only want to change the percentage reserved memory
+ fi
+ RAMSIZE="$(echo $ARG |cut -f2 -d= |cut -f2 -d,)"
+ if [ "$RAMSIZE" = "$TRTYPE" ]; then
+ # memperc was not supplied on commandline:
+ unset RAMSIZE
fi
;;
tweaks=*)
@@ -688,9 +704,9 @@ if [ "$RESCUE" = "" ]; then
# We need a mounted filesystem here to be able to do a switch_root later,
# so we create one in RAM:
if [ $TORAM -eq 1 ]; then
- RAMSIZE=90% # need to be able to load the entire OS in RAM
+ RAMSIZE="${RAMSIZE:-90}%" # 90% by default to load the entire OS in RAM
else
- RAMSIZE=50% # the default value.
+ RAMSIZE="${RAMSIZE:-50}%" # 50% is the default value.
fi
mount -t tmpfs -o defaults,size=${RAMSIZE} none /mnt