From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 21 21:20:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD4E37B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:20:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g0M5Kd364142 for current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:20:39 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:20:39 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: making a large RAMdisk? Message-ID: <20020121222038.A64090@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 get more than a 512M MFS filesystem allocated under -stable. (I've got two 2G swap partitions.) I tried using md to make a swap-backed filesystem under -current, but the problem is that it actually seems to back it with swap. (pstat -s shows disk space used, unlike MFS under -stable) Is there a way, under -current or -stable, to make a true RAMdisk that is around 2GB in size? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message