Slightly OT ! Increasing the size of the Ramdisk on Redhat 3.0

[Julian Field]

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At 13:57 07/09/2004, you wrote:
> >> I am trying to increase the size of the ramdisk on the
> >> Redhat3.0/Whiteboxlinux3.0 system
> >> I have added the following ramdisk_size=256000 to the /etc/grub.conf as
> >> below:-
> > >
> > >  kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
> > >ramdisk_size=256000
> > >        initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
>
> > I can't see what this has to do with MailScanner but I think this will
> > only be effective if the initrd is built to use a ramdisk that size.
> >
> > I can't think why you would want to do that.
>I am working on a multifunction server Mail/Apache + + and the SCSI 15k rpm
>disks are working 100% and I am going to try moving /tmp & other dirs/files
>to the ram disk to try and see if that helps. If it does we will take it
>further (putting some services on another system is currently NOT an option
>but is what needs to be done)
>The /tmp is at least 128mb alone so my need for 512mb

But changing the size of the initrd ram disk won't change the size of /tmp.
What you want to be doing is just using tmpfs for /tmp. This will expand
and contract as needed, without you having to do anything.
--
Julian Field
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