> > So they only work on and off. I never bothered to find out what the > > problem was (in fact, I hadn't even tried the ramdiskadm cmd in that > > version of Solaris before this email thread showed up). > > > > AIUI, the memory assigned to a ramdisk must be contiguous. > This makes some sense in that they are designed to be bootable. > If you've been running for a while, the chance of finding large, > contiguous areas decreases.
This is very interesting, thanks for enlightening me! Maybe a small note about this behavior is warranted in the NOTES section of ramdiskadm(1M)? :-) Thanks -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
