Hi I am sorry for the typo
> Bonnie -d 32 /mnt -s 50 & sync # Bonnie process hangs Bonnie -d /mnt -s 50 & sync # Bonnie process hangs Sincere Regards Vijayendra Suman On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Vijayendra Suman < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, Nitin, > > I think i have not explained well about the method for the hang. > > 1) insmod xvmalloc.ko; # I use 0.5.3 version > 2) insmod lzo-faster.ko; # I use a modified form of compressor, this helps > me to boot my application faster. > We can try this same by inserting compressor and decompressor modules which > is given in the compcache release. > 3) insmod compcache.ko; > > - State 1 > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/ramzswap0 > mount -t ext3 /dev/ramzswap0 /mnt; > Bonnie -d 32 /mnt -s 50 & sync # works well no problem > > - State 2 > > mkfs.vfat /dev/ramzswap0 > mount /dev/ramzswap0 /mnt; > Bonnie -d 32 /mnt -s 50 & sync # Bonnie process hangs > > If a application hangs it is a problem; which needs to be checked why this > happens. > > - State 3 # Boot Kernel 2.6.30; > > mkfs.vfat /dev/ramzswap0 > mount /dev/ramzswap0 /mnt; > Bonnie -d 32 /mnt -s 50 & sync # works well no problem > > I will try to find the issue and let you know > > Sincere Regards > Vijayendra Suman > > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Nitin Gupta <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Vijayendra, >> >> On 07/10/2009 10:57 AM, Vijayendra Suman wrote: >> >>> >>> My main motive is not to run the compcache block node as a swap >>> partition. I would like to use this partition for shared memory. My >>> application has to do lot of IPC's but i do not have much memory on board so >>> i have decided to use compcache block device node as a generalized block >>> device. >>> >>> How about this: >> - Create a small tmpfs partition, say 64MB and create filesystem over >> this. >> - Create ramzswap device (probably with a backing_swap) with memlimit of >> say, 1GB. >> >> This extra level of indirection using tmpfs effectively gives the same >> effect as a 'generic ramzswap device'. >> I think this is what John suggested. >> >> Also I have checked formatting this node with some block as ext3, this >>> works perfectly well. >>> With ext2 it is having some issue i will look in to it, But with fat 16, >>> 32 I see a hang in the system which is a result of the analysis i have done. >>> I will let you know f i find some thing. >>> >>> 1) swapon /dev/ramzswap >>> 2) mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G,nr_inodes=10k,mode=0700 tmpfs /space >>> >>> >>> I do not want it as swap partition >>> >>> >> I cannot think of any other method than tmpfs+ramzswap for your case. >> >> Nitin >> >> >
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