RAM Disk Settings (Reboot to Apply Changes) causes i/o error disk full on reboot.

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I set this so that I might make better use of my ram and that it might provide slightly better performance. Following the instructions I checked the box and filled in the values for both ram and tmp ram disk. I set the values from the default to 1gb each. After rebooting I received messages that the /var was full. This computer has 16gb of ram so I felt that 1 gb for each should be sufficient. Apparently not. The defaults for those settings is 256 and 1024 meaning 256mb of ram for one and 1gb for the other. I'm not sure why it failed. I accessed the terminal at the computer. At the console I could see that DHCP was not active as none of my interfaces were listed.…
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