[plug] RAM Disk

[Leon Brooks]

navarre at omen.net.au wrote:
> I changed the kernel on my Sparc IPC this morning and then noticed
> that the system was allocating RAM to a RAM Disk. I would like to
> stop this but after a quick look at the init files I can not tell
> what is causing it. Please inform me of the name etc of the prgram
> that is starting the RAM disks. I am currently loosing 16 * 4096K of
> memory. The kernel is 2.2.13 from Debian/binary-sparc/woody distribtion.

s/loosing/losing/ - caused by kernel RAMdisk support code - 64K isn't
huge, you'll likely be losing a similar amount from the RAMdisk code
itself, and much more from unused but compiled-in kernel features.

> This system only has 200Meg HDD and 24Meg Ram, I have resisted the idea
> of compiling my own kernel on this box.

G'wan, do it! (-:

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