On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:15:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > All of ZONE_NORMAL got used by ramdisk, and networking wants to > allocate a page from ZONE_NORMAL. An oom-killing is the correct > response, although probably not effective. > > ramdisk is a nasty thing - cannot you use ramfs or tmpfs?
What do you mean by "nasty thing"? I've heard that about loopback too. If I want to run a system entirely from ram with a compressed filesystem image mounted on /, is it better to store that image in a ramdisk, or on a tmpfs and mount it via loopback? Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
