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On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 14:14:11 -0800
aurfalien wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> Are there any other parameters I would need to setup a ram disk at
> boot time?
>=20
> I have this in my rc.conf;
>=20
> mdconfig_md100=3D?-t malloc -s 12G?

It's unlikely that you really want to be using -t malloc, which uses
wired kernel memory that's never released, and can cause kernel panics
if not reserved with the -o option.   -t swap will use
swap-backed memory which is equivalent to an ordinary userland malloc.

However mdconfig has largely been obsoleted by tmpfs which has its own
integrated file-system and so doesn't waste memory on storing deleted
files.