Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:10:46 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2003-09-16 at 20:58, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:29:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The kernel has no idea what you will do with given ram. It does try to > > make some guesses but you are basically trying to paper over hardware > > limits. > > Is there a way to specifically turn that ram into a tmpfs though?
Something like z2ram copied and hacked a little to kmap the blocks it wants would give you a block device you could use for swap or for /tmp. Im not sure tmpfs would work here
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