Volker A. Brandt wrote: >>> So they only work on and off. I never bothered to find out what the >>> problem was (in fact, I hadn't even tried the ramdiskadm cmd in that >>> version of Solaris before this email thread showed up). >>> >> AIUI, the memory assigned to a ramdisk must be contiguous. >> This makes some sense in that they are designed to be bootable. >> If you've been running for a while, the chance of finding large, >> contiguous areas decreases. > > This is very interesting, thanks for enlightening me! Maybe a small > note about this behavior is warranted in the NOTES section of > ramdiskadm(1M)? :-)
Probably ramdisk(7D) actually where it mentions the other memory limitations. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss