> On Jul 24, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Randeep <randeep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you James.
>
> Is there any specific way do you recommend using ramdisk? As raw device?
Like I just said, you can’t use tmpfs as a block device. I believe you can use
ramdisk as a block device but I haven’t tried it; you should go read the kernel
documentation on that.
Like I showed below, tmpfs seems to work fine. Mayb you have some other problem?
>
> Regards,
> Randeep
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:48 AM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Jul 24, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Randeep <randeep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to use RAMdisk for ats.
>>>
>>> Here is how I created RAMDISK
>>> *mount -o size=20G -t tmpfs none /mnt/ramdisk/*
>>>
>>> And in storage.config I have specified it as below.
>>> cat /opt/ats/etc/trafficserver/storage.config
>>> /mnt/ramdisk* 20G*
>>>
>>> But every time I restart ats, I get the following warning.
>>> [Jul 23 21:15:28.334] Server {0x2b9a5aba6380} WARNING: <Store.cc:528
>>> (init)> not enough free space for cache directory '/mnt/ramdisk’
>>
>> I did a quick test and tmpfs doesn’t support any of the ioctl methods that
>> we use to determine the block device size and IO parameters so you won’t be
>> able to use this as a raw device.
>>
>> Adding it as a directory seems to work just fine…
>>
>> [root@fedora-23 trafficserver]# cat
>> /opt/ats/etc/trafficserver/storage.config
>> /mnt/ramdisk 20G
>>
>> [root@fedora-23 trafficserver]# ls -lh /mnt/ramdisk
>> total 26M
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 20G Jul 23 23:15 cache.db
>>
>>> My question is, what is the right way to create ramdisk for ats and how
>> we
>>> need to specify it in the storage.config. (with or without size?)
>>>
>>> I checked in the documentation also. It doesn't have any information
>>> regarding ramdisk. It would be great if someone can add it.
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
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