Re: Ram Disk

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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Darvin Denmian<darvin.denmian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have some questions about Kernel Ram Disk:
>
> 1) When i configure Ram Disk to create disk with 16 MB, i see the
> following information in dmesg:
> "16 RAM disks of 16000K size 1024 blocksize"
> Why 16 disks? What is the function of the other discs?

Hmm, perhaps you could show us how did you create the ramdisk?

> 2) if i have a server with 4 GB of memory, can i create a ram disk with 2GB ?

IMO yes. But I am not sure whether ram disk is pageable or not.

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Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com

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