Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:18:51 -0700 From: Samuel J.Greear <dragonk@evilcode.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: making a large RAMdisk? Message-ID: <20020122052400.4790A2109B@ns1.infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <20020121222038.A64090@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20020121222038.A64090@panzer.kdm.org>
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On Monday 21 January 2002 10:20 pm, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > I've got a machine with 4G of RAM, and I'm trying to test all the RAM out > to make sure it's okay. > > I've tried doing buildworlds, but never end up using more than 1G of RAM on > cache, etc. > > I've got -current and -stable on it, and I've tried making an MFS > filesystem under -stable. I can't seem to get more than a 512M MFS > filesystem allocated under -stable. (I've got two 2G swap partitions.) > > I tried using md to make a swap-backed filesystem under -current, but the > problem is that it actually seems to back it with swap. (pstat -s shows > disk space used, unlike MFS under -stable) > > Is there a way, under -current or -stable, to make a true RAMdisk that is > around 2GB in size? > > Ken If all you want to do is test the RAM: http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ (download the Windows version and use dd to put the binary on a floppy) As far as your other questions, well .... Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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