Re: making a large RAMdisk?

2002-01-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: >Is there a way, under -current or -stable, to make a true RAMdisk that is >around 2GB in size? Possibly. If you take the detour around a preloaded image for the md(4) driver it should be possible. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX si

Re: making a large RAMdisk?

2002-01-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
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 t

Re: making a large RAMdisk?

2002-01-21 Thread Samuel J . Greear
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, a

making a large RAMdisk?

2002-01-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
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