Large Ramdisk creation causes crashes

[Andy Green]

Brandon Ooi wrote:

> The real problem I'm seeing is that as the ramdisk fills and there is
> obviously memory free, the machine crashes. I did this on a local
> machine rather than a remote one and the message that appears on the
> console is an "Out of Memory" error.

Please consider to run the test without a filesystem I suggested
earlier.  There's no point piling an ext2 filesystem and then raid on
top of what may be a machine-freezing substrate.

-Andy
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