View source for 500 meg ram disk

From: David Thornton<br>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:07 PM<br>
To: 'Peter Scheffler' (E-mail)<br>
Subject: config change<br>

so the ram went in no problem. The config was changed as follows:

changed:
 queue_directory = /var/ramdisk/0queue
to:
 queue_directory = /var/ramdisk/group1/0queue

* group 1 server 0-3
* group 2 server 4-6
* group 3 server 7,8

changed /etc/rc.d/rc.local

from:
 # create ramdisk
 echo making ram disk
 /sbin/mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram 500000

to:
 # create ramdisk
 echo making ram disk
 /sbin/mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram0 525000
 /sbin/mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram1 525000
 /sbin/mke2fs -m0 /dev/ram2 525000

from:
 # mount ramdisk
 echo mounting ram disk
 mount /dev/ram /var/ramdisk

to:
 # mount ramdisk
 echo mounting ram disk
 mount /dev/ram0 /var/ramdisk/group1
 mount /dev/ram1 /var/ramdisk/group2
 mount /dev/ram2 /var/ramdisk/group3

changed:
 # make the queue dirs
 # as a note.  at any given time, utilization of the ramdisk was never more then 10%
 echo making queue dir
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/0queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/1queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/2queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/3queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/4queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/5queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/6queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/7queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/8queue

to:
 # make the queue dirs
 # as a note.  at any given time, utilization of the ramdisk was never more then 10%
 echo making queue dir
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group1
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group2
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group3
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group1/0queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group1/1queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group1/2queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group1/3queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group2/4queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group2/5queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group2/6queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group3/7queue
 mkdir /var/ramdisk/group3/8queue

change lilo:

from:
<pre>
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
        label=linuxram
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/rd/c0d0p1
        ramdisk=500000
</pre>

to:
<pre>
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
        label=linuxram
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/rd/c0d0p1
        ramdisk=525000
<pre>

---<br>
David Thornton<br>
Bird on a Wire Networks<br>
http://www.birdonawire.com<br>
me: 905 896 6263<br>
support: 905 896 6370 option 2<br>
me: dthornton@birdonawire.com<br>
support: support@birdonawire.com<br>

Kernel: ramdisk_size=500000

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