[Mimedefang] RAMdisk on solaris

Keith Patton kpatton at dallas.photronics.com
Tue Apr 13 10:50:35 EDT 2004


Ok,

  I interested in what you found.  I have a box that is running out of inodes on tmp and 
is driving me crazy..

-Keith


J.D. Bronson wrote:
> If anyone is interested...there is a much better way to run a RAMDISK
> on solaris than is in the FAQ.
> 
> However it requires an up-to-date version (12/03 or 04/04 I believe).
> (older versions didnt seem to include ramdiskadm)
> 
> There is a very limited number of inodes available from the tmpfs file
> system.  And you can't change it.  It's not uncommon to run out of inodes
> on /tmp - often a situation that can kill the machine, since there are
> many processes that need to "scribble" on /tmp.
> 
> If you are interested, please email me off the list and I will be happy 
> to help.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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