On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Keith Laidlaw wrote: > About a week ago, there was a msg thread about RAM usage exceeding > available RAM. I never saw the end of the thread, but I have the same issue > and would like to know! > > In particular, on the default config floppy boot of D-CD rc2, "df" shows two > ram disks: ram0 at 12MB and ram1 at 4MB. On a 16MB machine, that > leaves 0MB for linux. I don't quite understand the output of "free", but it > seems to say that there is only 14MB total RAM (is this left after kernel?). > What gives?
The ramdisk driver is lying to df. > Note: the system seems to work so the suggestion that the RAM is double > allocated and heading for disaster as the ram disk fills doesn't seem to > fit. I think it is not a safe configuration. However, it is true that in general the effects that could cause uncontrolled filesystem usage appear in the /var filesystem, which is the smaller of the two. The archive thread begins with http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01256.html > Also, I get the message digest of this list and I'm convinced that I miss > many > messages because I follow threads and see messages that quote prior > messages that I never got! Is that because I only get the "user" list and > some people respond on other threads (e.g. devel)? I can't tell if you are not receiving all of the messages. There is occasional cross-posting. Sometimes people post things to leaf-devel that probably ought to have been posted in leaf-user to begin with, and replies may be sent to both, but I can't say I have noticed a lot of this. Use the archives if you feel you have missed something. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
