Re: ramdisk size clarification

Padraig Brady
2001-12-18T12:50:16Z

Mike Castle wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:41:32PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
>
>>and also there is no upper limit on the amount of RAM used,
>>so the following will kill your system (well it did for me):
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0
>>
>
> Bug in recent 2.4.*. It *should* stop. One line patch has been
> posted to the linux-kernel list a couple of times. Check the archive.
> It's probably in the recent pre-release kernels as well.
>

Great thanks!
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100797607432139&w=2

Padraig.