Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:27:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ken Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Kanno <presence@symmetric.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFS sizes Message-ID: <20001210122732.K16205@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3A33E5C3.2897B417@symmetric.net>; from presence@symmetric.net on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:21:23PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012092119440.20875-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> <3A33E5C3.2897B417@symmetric.net>
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* Ken " Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Kanno <presence@symmetric.net> [001210 12:21] wrote: > I am not able to create MFS ramdisks larger than about 500MB. This seems to be > because I nor mkfs are able to malloc more than 520185 k of RAM. I've tried 768 > and 1024MB of RAM in my machine as well as swap sized of 256 and 1024MB. > > is there a reason for this limit or a workaround? You need to increase MAXDSIZ in your kernel as the MFS is allocated inside a process's address space. Why do you need such a large ram disk? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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