Large mem disk with not very recent current

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:18:22PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:56:51PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>  I have the following idea/problem. I want to build world in memory.
> >>I've put in to my system 1G of memory and tried to put on it sources.
> >>But all times I've tried to do that system went to panic. I've used md
> >>with malloc type.
> >>
> >>  Any ideas?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Please provide more information.  It's likely you're trying to create
> >a md that is too big, though.
> > 
> >
> It is about 800Mb.

That's too big to fit in RAM and still run the rest of the system.  I
think more details can be found in the manpage.

Kris