Re: very large ram disk problems -- swapping, caching, and why tmpfs and not ext2 or reiserfs

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Subject: Re: very large ram disk problems -- swapping, caching, and why tmpfs and not ext2 or reiserfs
From: Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:11:37 +0100
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Matthew Kirk wrote:

1.  When I fill my ext2 or reiserfs ram disk (but not tmpfs) to the 1 GB
point, the system complains that it has insufficient memory, kills some


Monitor the kernel allocation situation with

slabtop

see what bulges at the seams before it blows chunks, maybe it can give aclue.


-Andy

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References:
- very large ram disk problems -- swapping, caching, and why tmpfs and not ext2 or reiserfs
  - From: Matthew Kirk