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On 14.12.15, Karl Denninger wrote:

> Is this a historical accident or is there a logical point in that sort
> of restrictive limit?

Don't know. I'm using tmpfs without any memory limitation since years. No 
problems so far.

root@pizelot:~ # grep tmpfs /etc/fstab
tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs   rw,mode=1777    2       0
tmpfs                   /var/tmp        tmpfs   rw              2       0

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