Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:17:02 +0200 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> To: phk@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/27259: md causes hang with make world Message-ID: <20010524001702.A20596@matrix.42.org> In-Reply-To: <200105231932.f4NJWmf06622@freefall.freebsd.org>; from phk@FreeBSD.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:32:48PM -0700 References: <200105231932.f4NJWmf06622@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Hi,
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:32:48PM -0700, phk@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: md causes hang with make world
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: phk
> State-Changed-When: Wed May 23 12:32:02 PDT 2001
> State-Changed-Why:
> The md driver uses non-swappable ram for storage. You have simply
> RAM-starved your system to death.
What leads you to that conlusion? Can you elaborate on that a bit more?
The machine in question has 1G of physical ram and the Malloc disk (md)
is 600Megs big. The remaining 400Megs should be more than enough for
the system to run normally, shouldn't it?
If not, why? And shouldn't there be a note to that effect in the md
manpage?
CU,
Sec
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