Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:39:36 -0400 | | From | Jason Lunz <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.20 OOM with 8Gb RAM |
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > All of ZONE_NORMAL got used by ramdisk, and networking wants to > allocate a page from ZONE_NORMAL. An oom-killing is the correct > response, although probably not effective. > > ramdisk is a nasty thing - cannot you use ramfs or tmpfs?
What do you mean by "nasty thing"? I've heard that about loopback too.
If I want to run a system entirely from ram with a compressed filesystem image mounted on /, is it better to store that image in a ramdisk, or on a tmpfs and mount it via loopback?
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