On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:24:21PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 16:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > = Documented in the manpage, use swap backing or reserve enough space. > = > = Kris > > The strings "panic" and "-o reserve" are mentioned in neither mdmfs(8) nor in > rc.conf(5)... Is one supposed to look elsewhere?
Yes, mdconfig, which is what creates the device (mdmfs is a legacy wrapper for 4.x compatibility). > Worse, the use of malloc-based mds is touted in rc.conf as something, that is > supposed to help "system stability at low memory conditions". > > All I did on this system, was set > > tmpmfs="YES" > tmpsize="2048m" > > in the /etc/rc.conf. > > Alex has already said, that using malloc-backed md is a bad default -- do you > disagree? No, that's what I said too (on this occasion and several times in the past :). I am not aware of a good reason to use malloc backing over swap, under any circumstances. Kris
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