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Diffstat (limited to 'liveinit.tpl')
| -rw-r--r-- | liveinit.tpl | 26 |
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 |