Re: Large ramdisk crashes 2.4.8

Brian (hiryuu@envisiongames.net)
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 18:51:43 -0400


Not that this condition should occur, but is this task something that
could be done in tmpfs? Does tmpfs exhibit the same problems?

-- Brian

On Saturday 11 August 2001 04:10 pm, Paul Buder wrote:
> A large ramdisk will either crash or make useless a
> 2.4.8 kernel. I did the following.
>
> I cleared out buffered memory by running this till it
> appropiately died.
> perl -e "$x='x' x 10000 while 1"
>
> top then said I was using 7 megs of ram on my 128 meg box.
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