From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Hudec Subject: Re: Run linux in ramdisk(tmpfs) and use a mounted HD for files cause memory and CPU overflow! Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:02:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20050630160219.GE30378@vagabond> References: <1f52e8ed05062911362b95af4f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1" Cc: Ewerton Romulo , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cimice4.lam.cz ([212.71.168.94]:40606 "EHLO vagabond.light.src") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262991AbVF3QMw (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:12:52 -0400 To: Bryan Henderson Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 14:00:56 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > Is there some symptom besides MemFree being small? Does the system get= =20 > slow? Ridiculously slow? Does it hang? >=20 > [...] > > This stuff changes all the time, and with it the format of /proc/meminfo.= =20 > Unlike most of the /proc/meminfos I've seen, this version has nothing=20 > about dirty pages in it, so it's hard to tell exactly where the system=20 > sits. I wonder if this information is somewhere else? Anybody? I have noticed there are quite many buffer heads, but I am not sure what would be normal amount. > There's one thing I don't get: Where is the tmpfs data? With no swap=20 > space and only a couple megabytes of page cache, I can't figure it out.= =20 > Surely the root filesystem is bigger than a few megabytes? Does someone= =20 > understand this? I believe he talked about small system. So it actually can be just a few megabytes. It obviously looks like setup for a router (with all the iptables stuff loaded), which needs just a busybox, iptables to set it up and perhaps ssh server so it can be reconfigured over network. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCxBeLRel1vVwhjGURAvBiAJ4mEaXHe0d0aCBmoEqqbipxGgOgXQCfQKGV lmJNokK3bBf9KUrFn7z9wSw= =ju/1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1--