Subject: Re: experiences beyond 4 GB RAM with 2.4.22
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@limsi.fr>
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On Maw, 2003-09-16 at 20:58, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:29:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The kernel has no idea what you will do with given ram. It does try to
> > make some guesses but you are basically trying to paper over hardware
> > limits.
> 
> Is there a way to specifically turn that ram into a tmpfs though?


Something like z2ram copied and hacked a little to kmap the blocks it
wants would give you a block device you could use for swap or for /tmp.
Im not sure tmpfs would work here

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