Making a ramdisk bigger then 512MB

[Brian T. Brunner]

1: This is a kernel config question, not one of Fedora Legacy 
    support per se.  for a clue:
    grep RAM /usr/src/linux-x.y.mumble/.config
2: RAMDisks, by definition, are in RAM, not on a hard drive; 
    a 12GB RAM disk would consume 12GB of RAM space.  
    I doubt you have 12GB of physical RAM. Virtual RAM (which 
    is on the hard drive, and thus not much faster than a simple 
    file on the hard drive) could be used, if you have 12GB of free 
    phys+swap Memory Space.
3: You can make a fake RAM space of any size using a loopback 
    device.  

Before going farther, can you explain why you need a 12GB RAMdisk?

Brian Brunner
brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com
(610)796-5838

>>> patrickmailing at narmida.com 02/21/05 04:32AM >>>
Hello,

I need for my database a ramdisk of 12 GB my problem is that i cannot go 
bigger then 512 see logs.
Anyone exp. in this ?

thnx for the help in advance

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