diff -u --recursive --new-file orig-linux/mm/shmem.c linux/mm/shmem.c
--- orig-linux/mm/shmem.c	Fri Dec 21 11:42:05 2001
+++ linux/mm/shmem.c	Sat Dec 22 03:10:32 2001
@@ -1286,11 +1286,11 @@
 	struct sysinfo si;
 
 	/*
-	 * Per default we only allow half of the physical ram per
+	 * Per default we only allow three-fourths of the physical ram per
 	 * tmpfs instance
 	 */
 	si_meminfo(&si);
-	blocks = inodes = si.totalram / 2;
+	blocks = inodes = ( si.totalram / 4 ) * 3;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
 	if (shmem_parse_options (data, &mode, &uid, &gid, &blocks, &inodes))