From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 13 19: 7:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.siscom.net (mail2.siscom.net [209.251.2.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF19737B411 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from radams@siscom.net) Received: (qmail 50077 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 02:07:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jason) (209.251.21.114) by mail2.siscom.net with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 02:07:36 -0000 Message-ID: <078a01c12466$345dc830$7215fbd1@jason> From: "Robert J. Adams" To: Subject: Large /dev/md0 ramdisk Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:42:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a need for a rather large ramdisk. From what I've read, md is a better way of going than mfs. I don't want this to be able to swap out. So far I'm having trouble getting md to store anything larger than ~90meg .. OS: FBSD 4.3-S relevant kernel config: options MD_NSECT=800000 Then I do a: disklabel -r -w md0 auto newfs /dev/md0c mount /dev/md0c /mnt Then.. while trying to copy over a large file.. it stops.. locks up the term.. (but not the entire system) .. I can't kill the cp proc, end up having to reboot to clear it. > df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/twed0s1a 2032623 287113 1582901 15% / /dev/twed1s1e 2032623 488229 1381785 26% /news /dev/twed0s1e 544066012 171091592 329449140 34% /news/spool/news/bin01 /dev/twed1s1f 544066012 172257468 328283264 34% /news/spool/news/bin02 procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/md0c 387607 90265 266334 25% /mnt It always gets to the exact same number of blocks... 90265 .. anyone have an idea? Please resond offllist since I'm not on hackers.. or you can answer this in fbsd-questions ;) Thanks, Jason --- Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. Phone: 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message