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
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