Subject: Re: tmpfs problem
To: None <rpaulo@fnop.net>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 09/30/2005 10:53:32
> Hi,
> While I was extracting pkgsrc into a tmpfs mount point, tar got stuck
> in "UVM aobj" and some other processes stuck in it after tar aswell.
> The tmpfs filesystem is already using the swap as I only have 256MB of
> RAM.
> 
> df -ih says:
> tmpfs         490M     365M      125M    74%    95911  1089809     8%   /tmpfs
> 
> top displays:
> Memory: 77M Act, 39M Inact, 4224K Wired, 22M Exec, 58M File, 1208K Free
> Swap: 512M Total, 385M Used, 128M Free
> 
> My knowledge on tmpfs is 0. How should I debug this ?
> 
> 		-- Rui Paulo

i guess that you have KMEMSTATS and hit per-usage limit,
which tmpfs doesn't know.

YAMAMOTO Takashi