Re: Provide an option to specify the tmpfs size of the container

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

luhux <luhux@outlook.com> skribis:

> I am using guix environment --container to containerize my programming 
> environment 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 
> container, the memory usage of the host will be very high (this is usually 
> something 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 ‘--share’ so the logs are stored on disk.

Thanks,
Ludo’.