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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>
>> This hack-around, was it purely Linux-motivated? Or did/do other OSes
>> have similar issues?
>>
>
> /dev/shm doesn't exist on anything but Linux.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>> Jan

This should be tested well on Solaris 10, especially with -m values
approaching 1GB and -kernel-kqemu.  The Solaris version would use /tmp
rather than /dev/shm, but iirc there were problems when using
MAP_ANONYMOUS.

Also, on Linux, does anyone know what minimum kernel version is needed
to not need the /dev/shm hack?

Thanks,

Leo Reiter