On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Michael Schuh wrote:
i can't understand how malloc can eat all available
memory, i have 2Gigs of it ;-)
so it seems to me i know what i doing, if
i have 1,6 Gigs free Memory, and i say ok get me 750Megs from
my 1,6 Gigs of free Memory, what was faulty on that????
The two choices involve a swap-based RAMdisk, which can use all of
the available physical RAM it needs to, since this memory is
swappable, or a kernel-memory-based RAMdisk, which uses wired-down
memory from within the kernel.
You shouldn't or can't create huge kernel-based RAMdisks without
expanding the amount of KVM available to the kernel...it's not
reasonable to wire down hundreds of MB or RAM in almost all situations.
i hope it gave another way to use such ram-disk without using
swap or other harddisk based backend....otoh my ram is not fully
useful
for me and i must, after twelve years of using freebsd, looking
back to
linux, and that i never would, only for using ramdisks....
If you wanted to create a 10MB RAMdisk, using kernel-based memory
would be fine.
For things which are much larger than that, the kernel's global VM
management is using techniques like page-fault frequency heuristics
and will do a better job of keeping active stuff cached in RAM
(regardless of whether the stuff is part of a running process or part
of your RAMdisk filesystem), if you let the kernel manage the
situation than if you try to configure hundreds of MB which can only
be used for a RAMdisk.
Anyway, if you want to use Linux instead, nobody here is going to try
to persuade you to do otherwise. Have fun,
--
-Chuck
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