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

From: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:08:02 +0300
On (23/06/2011 20:44), Olivier Smedts wrote:
> 2011/6/23 Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro_at_ipfw.ru>:
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> > Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> >> I gave up on using it after a brief try earlier this year. I can't
> >> remember the details, but it did lock up my amd64 system.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David O'Brien wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does anyone object to this patch?
> >>>
> >>> David Wolfskill and I have run TMPFS on a number of machines for two
> >>> years with no problems.
> >>>
> >>> I may have missed something, but I'm not aware of any serious PRs on
> >>> TMPFS either.
> >
> > There was some issues with sendfile(2) and mmap(2) causing kernel hangs
> > in some cases. vim triggers such hangs for me. However, those problems
> > were fixed and MFCed (afair).
> >
> > I'm using tmpfs on several machines in production without any problems.
> > Maybe being _highly_ experimental for nearly 4 years is enough? :)
> 
> I think there are still problems with high wired memory consumers like
> ZFS. I've got 0-sized tmpfs with 8GB RAM + ZFS with 4GB ARC + 4GB
> swap.
There is a patch to make tmpfs memory management more strict (more
aggressive), and set default partition size to half of all memory.
http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-fs&m=129747362722933&w=2
Received on Thu Jun 23 2011 - 19:38:21 UTC

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