Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental"

[Sean M. Collins]

On 7/1/11 2:42 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> The box shouldn't wedge in this situation.  If tmpfs can create 
> a memory starvation situation on the kernel level, it is not
production ready.

The full message was "swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone" - I
guess that actual swap wasn't exhausted, but just space for metadata. So
in tmpfs' defense,  AMD64 boots with a kern.maxswzone of 32MB like i386,
which only allows ~7 GB of swap to be allocated.

I'll see if I can get the machine to wedge again, then increase
kern.maxswzone, and repeat.

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Sean Collins
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