Re: [gentoo-user] System cold crashing when too much memory is used?

2012-10-21 Thread Robert David
Hi, what rebooted Dom0 or DomU? Have you some special need to run kernel 3.4.9, try 3.0.35, I dont have any issue on server with 3.0.x. Other thing, try to disable swap and run the script. Could be disk problem or bus/controller problem when copying pages from swap. Robert. On Friday 19

[gentoo-user] System cold crashing when too much memory is used?

2012-10-19 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
hi, I am running a Xen host with gentoo sources 3.4.9. I've had issues that the box cold reboots on me and suspected memory use. Today I ran the following little perl script: my $a = a x 1000; $b = $a x 1000; while(1) { $b .= $b; } 2 Minutes about 2G swapped out (Dom0 has about 6GB of ram