From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 10 12:27:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 12:27:44 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FF637B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBAKRWn04120; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:27:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:27:32 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ken Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Kanno Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFS sizes Message-ID: <20001210122732.K16205@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3A33E5C3.2897B417@symmetric.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A33E5C3.2897B417@symmetric.net>; from presence@symmetric.net on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:21:23PM -0600 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ken " Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Kanno [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