Hi Eli, On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:34:12 +0300 Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I just wrote a post in my blog about Linux (2.6.35 on x86_64) oopsing > and hanging when allocating huge amounts of RAM. There are a couple of > plain C programs in the post that did the job pretty well. You may want > to try them yourselves. Or maybe suggest reasons why this happens at all. > > This is not an issue for me right now, because no real program does what > those test snippets do. And still, there's something worrying about > being able to crash the computer completely that easily. > > http://billauer.co.il/blog/?p=2837 > Thanks for the interesting post. On my system (specs below) with 8GB of RAM and kernel "Linux telaviv1.shlomifish.org 3.3.6-desktop-1.mga2 #1 SMP Sat May 12 20:01:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux" memeater does not cause the system to crash. In fact, everything appears to be fine after running memeater. I'll try it with a vanilla 3.5.x kernel next and report it here. Here are my specs: An Intel Core i3 CPU (x86-64). 8 GB of RAM. Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) A 2 TB hard-disk. A 19״ LCD Screen by ViewSonic. Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller. Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality Knuth is not God! Unless you confuse him with Dijkstra. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux