On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 22:18:51 -0700, Samuel J.Greear wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2002 10:20 pm, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > I've got a machine with 4G of RAM, and I'm trying to test all the RAM out
> > to make sure it's okay.
> >
> > I've tried doing buildworlds, but never end up using more than 1G of RAM on
> > cache, etc.
> >
> > I've got -current and -stable on it, and I've tried making an MFS
> > filesystem under -stable. I can't seem to get more than a 512M MFS
> > filesystem allocated under -stable. (I've got two 2G swap partitions.)
> >
> > I tried using md to make a swap-backed filesystem under -current, but the
> > problem is that it actually seems to back it with swap. (pstat -s shows
> > disk space used, unlike MFS under -stable)
> >
> > Is there a way, under -current or -stable, to make a true RAMdisk that is
> > around 2GB in size?
> >
> > Ken
>
>
> If all you want to do is test the RAM:
> http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/
> (download the Windows version and use
> dd to put the binary on a floppy)
Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately it doesn't work with more than 2G of
RAM. (The test just hangs up, numlock doesn't work, keyboard input doesn't
seem to do anything.)
> As far as your other questions, well ....
For the archives, Paul Saab pointed out that I need to increase MAXDSIZ.
That did the trick, and I now have a ~2G MFS partition: (on -stable)
{nargothrond:/usr/home/ken:62:0} df -k /mnt
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
mfs:340 2015918 604986 1249660 33% /mnt
Ken
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