perform builds on a different drive

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Sat Sep 11 13:25:48 EDT 2010


On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote:

DF> Next question, wouldn't tmpfs be a more obvious choice, because it
DF> expands as needed? I know it's supposed to be experimental, but I
DF> tried to put one under massive load and wasn't able to panic the
DF> system.

FWIW, I tried tmpfs today on decent 8-STABLE/amd64, and twice put my tinderbox 
machine into

panic: tmpfs_alloc_vp: type 0xffffff000d957c40 0

(didn't dig into this deeply enough to get backtraces yet; to be done later)


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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