Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

From: Stefan Bethke <stb_at_lassitu.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 08:42:28 +0200
Am 01.07.2011 um 07:01 schrieb Sean M. Collins:

> Ugh - bonnie++ creates a file that is twice the size of available
> memory, and I have 16G of swap available. While ZFS already had most of
> the memory wired for ARC. I shouldn't be surprised that the box was
> printing "swap zone exhausted"

The box shouldn't wedge in this situation.  If tmpfs can create a memory starvation situation on the kernel level, it is not production ready.


Stefan

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