Re: kern/45709: tmpfs size went nuts

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/45709; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/45709: tmpfs size went nuts
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:59:10 +0000

 On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:00:10PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
  > From: Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost>
  > To: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>
  > Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
  >     netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > Subject: Re: kern/45709: tmpfs size went nuts
  > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:59:31 +0000
  > 
  >     Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:05:03 +0000 (UTC)
  >     From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>
  >  
  >     Could it be you didn't have enough free swap? I.e. the tmpfs file
  >     system size seems to be capped by the amount of free memory.
  >  
  >  Unlikely.  I had two or three gigabytes of swap handy, and there was
  >  only about a gigabyte of RAM in use at the time, plus a few dozens of
  >  megabytes stored in the tmpfses.  So there should have been four or
  >  five gigabytes of memory free, not ten to twenty megabytes.
 
 So, something was truncating to 32 bits? :-/
 
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 David A. Holland
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