Re: Large mem disk with not very recent current

From: Roman Kurakin <rik_at_cronyx.ru>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:00:50 +0400
Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:18:22PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:56:51PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>> I have the following idea/problem. I want to build world in memory.
>>>>I've put in to my system 1G of memory and tried to put on it sources.
>>>>But all times I've tried to do that system went to panic. I've used md
>>>>with malloc type.
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>>>> Any ideas?
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>>>Please provide more information.  It's likely you're trying to create
>>>a md that is too big, though.
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>>It is about 800Mb.
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>That's too big to fit in RAM and still run the rest of the system.  I
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With 1G it should be about 200M for rest of the system. This should be more
than enough, so this is bad guess.

rik

>think more details can be found in the manpage.
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>Kris
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