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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:46:59 +0000
From: Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>
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To: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: ramdisk size clarification
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Mike Castle wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:41:32PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>and also there is no upper limit on the amount of RAM used,
>>so the following will kill your system (well it did for me):
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0
>>
> 
> Bug in recent 2.4.*.  It *should* stop.  One line patch has been
> posted to the linux-kernel list a couple of times.  Check the archive.
> It's probably in the recent pre-release kernels as well.
> 

Great thanks!
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100797607432139&w=2

Padraig.

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