On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Bob Copeland <bcopel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Hugh Dickins <h...@veritas.com> wrote:
>> Let me see if I can reproduce the ath5k BUG with a straightforward
>> memhog, repeatedly dirtying more anon memory than RAM can provide.
>> Is there something suitable I could run to exercise that wireless
>> path concurrently?  It was just idling when I hit the BUGs before.
>
> Receiving any packets will do it, in your case it was probably
> beacons from nearby APs if you weren't using the wifi.  So iperf
> or similar will work.

Actually it's probably enough to just intentionally fail one
of the allocations in the driver.  I'll do that and let you know
if I can easily break it.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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