Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Large ramdisk crashes system | Date | Fri, 08 Jun 2001 00:35:46 +0100 |
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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
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