On (23/06/2011 20:44), Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2011/6/23 Alexander V. Chernikov <melif...@ipfw.ru>: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > >> > >> 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
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