Big RAM block device
I need to make a 1G block device in memory. (the machine has 4 GB of memory)
Never having done this before, I found rd.o from the block devices section of the kernel config. Did a bit of reading. Was able to make 1 MB, 10 MB, and 100 MB devices (modprobe rd rd_size=1kblocks), and then dd /dev/zero onto them, and then make a filesystem and mount it. No problem.
BUT... when I try to make a 1 GB ram disk, I kill the machine, or some of it:
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1000000K size 1024 blocksize
garrison:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 count=2000000
Connection to garrison closed by remote host.
Connection to garrison closed.
lj@mayor:~$ ping garrison
PING garrison.lj (10.0.0.21): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.21: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.21: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
lj@mayor:~$ ssh root@garrison
ssh: connect to address 10.0.0.21 port 22: Connection refused
I imagine I just killed the VM, trying to allocate all that memory so fast from the buffer cache, which is already mostly in use. I looked through rd.c, but couldn't see anything to suggest a max size.
Ideas?
Never having done this before, I found rd.o from the block devices section of the kernel config. Did a bit of reading. Was able to make 1 MB, 10 MB, and 100 MB devices (modprobe rd rd_size=1kblocks), and then dd /dev/zero onto them, and then make a filesystem and mount it. No problem.
BUT... when I try to make a 1 GB ram disk, I kill the machine, or some of it:
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1000000K size 1024 blocksize
garrison:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 count=2000000
Connection to garrison closed by remote host.
Connection to garrison closed.
lj@mayor:~$ ping garrison
PING garrison.lj (10.0.0.21): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.21: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.21: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
lj@mayor:~$ ssh root@garrison
ssh: connect to address 10.0.0.21 port 22: Connection refused
I imagine I just killed the VM, trying to allocate all that memory so fast from the buffer cache, which is already mostly in use. I looked through rd.c, but couldn't see anything to suggest a max size.
Ideas?
