From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:36:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:36:10 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:37370 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:35:56 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: To: Paul Buder Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Large ramdisk crashes system Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:35:46 +0100 Message-ID: <14555.991956946@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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