[lug] Max ramdisk size?

[Jonathan Briggs]

The ramdisks are fixed in size.  That size can be configured when you
build the kernel.  It defaults to 4 MB.

I would recommend using the tmpfs filesystem.  It stores files in memory
and they can be swapped to disk if needed.  The size can be configured
with a mount parameter.  It defaults to half your memory.  tmpfs doesn't
immediately use all the memory allocated to it, that's just its maximum
size.

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 17:01, Rob Riggs wrote:
> Anyone know what the limit on ramdisk size is? If I have a 16GB (ia32) 
> box, can I make a single 15GB ramdisk, or will I need to make a number 
> of smaller ones?

-- 
Jonathan Briggs
jbriggs at esoft.com
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