Hi,
My system is a Redhat 5.2 running on
linux 2.2.6 + raid0145-19990421.
I tested if the system is stable while swapping heavily.
I tested a regular swap area and a soft-RAID1 (2 disks) swaparea.
So I wrote e little program wich does basically the following:
allocate as much as possible
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
Hi,
My system is a Redhat 5.2 running on
linux 2.2.6 + raid0145-19990421.
I tested if the system is stable while swapping heavily.
I tested a regular swap area and a soft-RAID1 (2 disks) swaparea.
So I wrote e little program wich does
Alvin Starr wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
Hi,
My system is a Redhat 5.2 running on
linux 2.2.6 + raid0145-19990421.
I tested if the system is stable while swapping heavily.
I tested a regular swap area and a soft-RAID1 (2 disks) swaparea.
So I wrote e
David Guo wrote:
Hi.
If you read the document of the raid. You'll know swap on raid is not safe.
And you don't have any reason to use swap on raid. Because kernel handles
the swap on different disk will not be worse then raid.
I think you can checkout the docs with raid.
Yours David.
Not
Benno Senoner wrote:
...
1)
my frist BIG QUESTION is if there is a design flaw in malloc() or not:
No, malloc() should return nil if the memory requested cannot be backed
by real storage. However, some unicies are configured to perform just as
you discovered
because much of the memory
I don't see the relevance to linux-raid either, but the 2.2.x kernel does
have /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory which will enable the below behaviour.
It's off by default though...
---
tani hosokawa
river styx internet
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Gianni Mariani wrote:
Benno Senoner wrote:
...
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
Hi,
My system is a Redhat 5.2 running on
linux 2.2.6 + raid0145-19990421.
1)
my frist BIG QUESTION is if there is a design flaw in malloc() or not:
when I do (number of successfully allocated blocks)* 4MB
then I get 2GB of
I tried to use the software watchdog on a system running with a raid1 root
file system(this may also fail on other systems). I kicked the dog and
then settled back to wait for a minute to verify that things rebooted
correctly. They did not. I got a kernel Aieee message and a "kernel
recursion
Hi!
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Alvin Starr wrote:
I tried to use the software watchdog on a system running with a raid1 root
[...]
At that point I was hung and had to perform a hard
reset.
What is "cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic" saying?
Bye,
Rob
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I don't see the relevance to linux-raid either, but the 2.2.x kernel does
have /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory which will enable the below behaviour.
It's off by default though...
thanks, I will try this /proc setting,
I am using a standard RH5.2 box with a 2.2.6
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