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Subject: Re: mdconfig via rc.conf
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On Mar 5, 2014, at 4:48 AM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 14:14:11 -0800
> aurfalien wrote:
>=20
>> 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?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20

Thanks for this.  I=92ll take this under advisement and adjust my =
implementation.

- aurf

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