From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>, Cameron Schaus <cam@schaus.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413225433.GV2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413154653.21fdb914.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:46:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It's just weird - it exploits internal knowledge of VFS behaviour, diddles
> with pagecache within a fake disk strategy handler, etc.
> Furthermore, because it pretends to be a block device, the VFS will not use
> highmem pages when accessing the ramdisk. So the 8GB machine will go splat
> with only 800MB of ramdisk.
> ramfs is much cleaner and does not have that limitation.
After all this time, bdevs are still lowmem etc. Crying shame.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 17:38 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM Cameron Schaus
2007-04-12 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-12 21:30 ` Cameron Schaus
2007-04-13 22:39 ` Jason Lunz
2007-04-13 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-13 22:54 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-04-13 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-13 23:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-13 23:01 ` Jason Lunz
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20070413225433.GV2986@holomorphy.com \
--to=wli@holomorphy.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=cam@schaus.ca \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lunz@falooley.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.