diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 29f026be2..cfa2da302 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -96,22 +96,16 @@ A sample output on Ubuntu: :: - pp@camerapc:~$ df -h + pp@camerapc:~$ df -h|grep "Filesystem\|shm" Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on - /dev/sda1 226G 96G 119G 45% / - none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup - udev 1.8G 4.0K 1.8G 1% /dev - tmpfs 371M 816K 370M 1% /run - none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 2.6G 923M 1.7G 36% /run/shm - none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user -The key item here is tmpfs --> the example above shows we have allocated 1.7G of mapped memory space of which 36% is used which is a healthy number. If you are seeing this to go beyond 70% you should probaby increase mapped memory +The key item here is tmpfs --> the example above shows we have allocated 1.7G of mapped memory space of which 36% is used which is a healthy number. If you are seeing ``Use%`` going beyond 70% you should probaby increase the mapped memory. - -If you want to increase this limit to 70% of your memory, add the following to ``/etc/fstab`` -``tmpfs /run/shm tmpfs defaults,noexec,nosuid,size=70% 0 0`` +For example, if you want to increase this limit to 70% of your memory, add the following to ``/etc/fstab`` +``tmpfs SHMPATH tmpfs defaults,noexec,nosuid,size=70% 0 0`` +where SHMPATH is the ``Mounted on`` path. Here, that would be ``/run/shm``. Other systems may be ``/dev/shm``. What does a 'Can't shmget: Invalid argument' error in my logs mean? (and my camera does not display at higher resolutions)