On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, linux-os wrote:
When I compile and run the following program:
./xxx `yes`
It looks like the program itself doesn't matter, since it's bash that's eating up memory like crazy, until the point where it is OOM killed.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 32191 riel 18 0 436m 126m 312 R 45.9 86.9 0:13.37 bash 32222 riel 15 0 3276 148 124 S 39.0 0.1 0:09.79 yes
Additional sense: Peripheral device write fault end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 34605780 SCSI error : <0 0 1 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x2100101, Deferred sdb: sense key Medium Error
Looks like your SCSI disk has some problems, you may want to try running 'badblocks' on the swap partition to verify that. The VM doesn't appear to have a problem with your test program, in my quick runs here.
ObLKML: I was running the test inside Xen, and that seemed to hold up fine too ;)
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