From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Paul Buder <paulb@aracnet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large ramdisk crashes system
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:35:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14555.991956946@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106071607180.3940-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106071607180.3940-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
paulb@aracnet.com said:
> the kernel is 2.4.5 with 'Simple RAM-based file system support' turned on.
> I issued the following commands.
> mkfs /dev/ram0 400000
> mount /dev/ram0 /mnt
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/junk bs=1024 count=500000
Why turn on ramfs if you're not going to use it?
mount -t ramfs none /mnt/junk
Use the one in the -ac tree and you get resource limits, which will be
useful. The VM will still be broken, but you should get away with a little
more.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-07 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-07 23:09 Large ramdisk crashes system Paul Buder
2001-06-07 21:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-08 19:32 ` Paul Buder
2001-06-07 23:35 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-06-08 19:33 ` Paul Buder
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