Thank you for the explanation; makes sense. In essence the RAM disk allocation has moved from a "thin" provision to a "thick" provision. And yes, I know the disks are considerably larger than I need, especially since I send everything to a remote syslog, and the local logs are capped. I did it because I have a lot more RAM in the system than I really need, and was still wondering what extra data and/or graphs I could capture. If I ever find a need to run something that needs RAM I will reduce these values as needed.